Gothic earth

For use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

by
Rucht Lilavivat

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 What is Gothic Earth Eternal?
Gothic Earth Eternal is a netbook project by Rucht Lilavivat and the Fraternity of Shadows. It is a Pathfinder 2012 update of Gothic Earth. What you
hold before you represents the culmination of a year-long project. It is a continuation of the setting that was started in 1994 by William W. Connors and
TSR. It was written and reviewed to some degree, though it does not bear the strong foundations of a work rigorously tested. That, we leave to you. We
hope you enjoy what we have worked on. We hope that you use our material to craft your own games, your own stories, and your own worlds. And if
you do, tell us about them!

May all of your horror games end with a fright in your heart, a chill in your stomach and a prickling on your skin.

Good scares to all!

chapter 1: The story so far p. 3

chapter 2: A Brief Interlude p. 7
Chapter 3: character Backgrounds p. 9
chapter four: The core classes p. 13
chapter five: New skills and feats p. 28
chapter Six: Wealth, arms and armor p. 31
chapter seven: The InvestiGative roleplaying sYstem p. 33
chapter seven: horror and Insanity rulEs p. 35
The story so far
The red death
Long ago, in the land of Egypt, the great architect-priest known as Imhotep sought to do a great favor for his king, Djoser. The great scholar
sought to bestow upon his liege the secret of immortality. Long had the necromancers of the lower tribes practiced the dread art of necromancy,
but this only brought about pale mockeries of life. Imhotep sought a way to compel all seven parts of the soul to linger upon Earth, granting his
god-king true everlasting life.

Imhotep miraculously accomplished this mighty magical task, but in doing so, he broke the natural order of the world. With the cycle of nature
cracked, it opened a rift from our world into the next. And through this rift came the Red Death. Imhotep and Djoser were immediately enslaved
by this powerful entity. They both gained immortality, but at a terrible cost. The fabric of magic was corrupted throughout the world, staining it
with the risk of taint. The Red Death also gave rise to hordes of undead, bestowing upon countless beings the curse of unlife.

Two great battles

Humanity waged war upon the Red Death. Mighty wizards such as Merlin and Roger Bacon rallied to them the worlds greatest scholars. Brave
warriors such as Charlemagne and Joan of Arc led armies against the crimson menace. Yet, as these wars were being fought, an entirely
different one was being waged in the East. Unbeknownst to the West, another entity found its way into our world. It gnawed its way into our
reality through the same festering wound opened by Imhotep in earlier days. Today, that entity is known as the Jade Horror.

The rise of the Death

As millennia passed, the Red Death grew more powerful. Around the Year 1890, the Death reached the peak of its power. Some of its most
trusted and powerful lieutenants came from this time period. Infamous villains such as Count Vlad Dracula, Professor Moriarty, Victor
Frankenstein, Delphine LaLaurie all rose up to prominence in this dark time.

The Great PUrge

And yet, in 1900, something completely unexpected happened on Gothic Earth - the defeat of the Red Death. It was not an easy task. Indeed, it
took a legion of scholars, hunters, soliders, and investigators to accomplish this near-impossible task. Over a decade of battle, research, and
sacrifice took place before a final battle. But in the end, the Red Death was shunted out of this reality, and sent back from whence it came.

Imhotep was destroyed and his great king, Djoser, was eradicated from the face of Gothic Earth. The Darklords found themselves suddenly
trapped within domains - strange mystical pockets of the land that they could not leave.

In the following decades, the league made their way across the globe, destroying the Darklords one by one. This time is known as the Great
Purge. It was a time in which things were turned on their head. Now it was the denizens of darkness who fled from the forces of good. But
something happened that no one could have anticipated.

The rise of the Jade Horror

The Jade Horror and the Red Death had long been locked in a terrible struggle. Through subtle means, the Jade Horror was able to aid the
league of Westerners in their battle, giving them an edge against her mighty opponent. With the Red Death finally defeated, the Jade Horror
began spreading its horrific influence throughout the globe. But yet another event shook the globe, one that no scholar or horror had seen
coming.

The advent of the World Wars

Though many horrors unleashed upon this realm are the work of the Death or the Horror, the greatest evils always come from Man himself. No
great and powerful entity caused the outbreak of the First or Second World Wars. Humanity alone is responsible for these calamitous events.

The hideous death toll of the First World War gave rise to all manner of undead and warped beings. Creatures arose of their own accord, with
no supernatural patron controlling them. But it is during the Second World War that humanity truly crippled itself.

In 1945, the Germans were besieged. The Allies were closing in on them from the East and West. In desperation, they turned to a supernatural
solution. They attempted an ancient ritual, recovered from the desert by Rommels own operatives. The SS Inner Circle performed a mystic
ceremony that should have, by their reckoning, freed a Darklord from its domain and put it under their control. But the ceremony was a disaster.
The Darklord broke free and devoured everyone at the site.

But this ritual did much more than that - it ripped open the still-fresh seal over the magical fabric of Gothic Earth - and allowed the Red Death
back into the world.

Today
Now, the people of Gothic Earth struggle on. The Red Death and the Jade Horror are at war. Darklords, still trapped in their domains created
back in 1900, plot against each other, some siding with the Horror and others with the Death.

Caught in the middle of this are the unwashed masses of humanity. People are used as pawns in this never-ending conflict. The forces of
darkness are rallying and some scholars foresee a new Dark Age approaching, one where all of Gothic Earth is consumed in a shadow-war - the
Eternal Night. Indeed, some say that it is already here....

Darklords Eternal
A Darklord is a being of great power and darkness. The Red Death or the Jade Horror has chosen them as their champion. But not every
Darklord follows his patron. Many work secretly to free themselves from the yoke of their servitude. The older Darklords of Gothic Earth are a
pernicious lot. They have survived the War of 1900, saw the Red Death banished from the land, and survived the Great Purge afterwards. This
means that most of the older Darklords are both cunning and resourceful.

Each and every Darklord deserves their fate. Somewhere along the line, they have committed an Ultimate Act of Darkness and this one deed
trapped them in a domain that they cannot leave. The domain that they dwell in is one part palace, one part torture room.

What a Darklord is Not

Darklords are not a whos who of evil personas in the world. Many of the worlds most evil individuals are not Darklords. Both the Red Death
and the Jade Horror only embrace a particular kind of insidiousness. Darklords are not someone who necessarily commits lots of murder and
destruction. Sometimes a single act of darkness can be enough to cause a person to become a Darklord.

how Darklords are Chosen

More often than not, a Darklord is someone who gets their hands dirty. Hilter helped come up with his Final Solution, but he did not personally
oversee the building of specific death camps. Amon Gth, however, did. To an entity like the Death, Amon Gth is a far more appealing spawn
than Hilter.

Most Darklords also have a personal stake in their Ultimate Act of Darkness. Most didnt kill random innocents for no reason. They had a real
and driving need to enact their vile deeds. Usually, something in a Darklords background is tied to their Acts of Darkness. Thus, a Darklord is
not a soldier who killed fifty men because he was ordered to do so. Rather, he is a man who chose fifty people for a personal reason and ensured
that each of those souls fell to his twisted needs.

But the most important thing to remember is that the Red Death and Jade Horror follow no fast rules on who they make into a Darklord.
Everything discussed above are nothing more than guidelines.

Life on Gothic earth

Life on Gothic Earth transpires much as it does today on our own earth. People wake up, go to their jobs, to school, come home, and go to sleep.
But in-between the spaces of the world, something else lurks. The Darklords are not the only things the wait in the night. Creatures and beings
beyond all reckoning dwell in the dark places. Down dim alleys, dusty basements, and in the skin of our closest friends.

The rule UnspoKen

Heres the funny thing about Gothic Earth Eternal - almost everyone knows about the supernatural. Thats right, almost everyone knows. But no
one wants to talk about it. It has become known amongst investigators as the Rule Unspoken.

Most people on Gothic Earth encounter the supernatural during their childhood, when they discover that the Thing Under the Bed is real.
However, usually they find out from a friend or from a desperate parent the terrible truth that makes up the Rule Unspoken: If You Talk About
It - They Will Get You.

Those unfortunate souls who dont learn this terrible truth are usually taken away in the night. Sometimes they are made into an awful repast.
Sometimes they are turned into a creature themselves. Thus, the Rule Unspoken is maintained through attrition - those that break it vanish and
are not discussed. Those who maintain it have a chance at life - but only a chance. There are always the fortunate few, of course, who have never
experienced the supernatural and remain in the dark. These are the lucky ones.

This makes the setting of Gothic Earth a desperate one. People dont wander about happily unaware of the evils around them. Instead, they are
keenly aware of them, but powerless to do anything about it. Everyday, people go missing. A chair will sit empty at the dinner table and no one
will speak of who once sat there. Scores of crimes remain unsolved by the police and the files are buried in a drawer. To live on Gothic Earth is
to live in oppression and fear.

a Time for heroEs

Yet, this is how heroes arise on Gothic Earth. It might be a lone man or woman who finally stands up. It may be a group that bands together and
says, no more. This is how the champions of Gothic Earth are born.
 The job of the hero on Gothic Earth is never
easy. When they knock on doors or interview
witnesses, its rare to find the lone soul who
wants to talk. Thats often why the heroes on
Gothic Earth must form cadres or even
leagues. To gain information they must be able
to protect those who dare to speak up.
The INscrutable east
In the Far East, things work a bit differently.
There, people are able to talk about the
supernatural, but usually do so behind closed
doors. Fortune-tellers and exorcists ply their
trade, but do so clandestinely. However, the
citizen of the East are constantly at war with
the Rising Lie. As modernism slowly sweeps
across Asia and the Middle East, it carries
with it a happy falsehood: The supernatural
does not exist.
The rule Unspoken in Gameplay
This unique rule on Gothic Earth makes it quite different from many
horror settings, where skepticism is the norm. It also helps the game
master to keep up a sense of coherency and consistency in the game. For
example, wouldnt a police department know that an inordinate amount of
people are missing from their town? Well, thanks to the Rule Unspoken,
its possible that they are well aware of it. They just chose to do nothing
about it. Speaking of the police, the Rule Unspoken also solves the
problem of telling the authorities in a horror game. If the authorities
are well and truly afraid, they may not respond when the PCs come
calling.
While most people dont like to talk about the supernatural, there are
some who will. Make sure as a game master that finding someone who will
talk does not become frustrating for the PCs. If the PCs are on the trail
of a creature and none of the people who has seen it wants to talk to them,
then it will swiftly become tiresome for your party.

Thus, the Old Ways are dying out and with them the secrets to battling the minions of the Jade Horror. This makes for different sorts of heroes
than the ones found in the West. Those who take up the fight against the darkness in the East are also preservers of the Old Ways. They seek to
save the knowledge that is rapidly disappearing from their culture, while trying to stay alive themselves. These brave individuals do not just seek
to save lives but an entire way of life.

Domains of Dread
Each and every Darklord on Gothic Earth exists within a domain - a special prison that is one part torture chamber, one part prison, and one
part playground. Domains on Gothic Earth can be as small as a house or as expansive as a small country. It depends upon the Darklord than
dwells within.

What a Domain is Like

Typically, a domain will be a place on Gothic Earth that has been twisted to fit the macabre inner psyche of its Darklord. For example, a killer
who keeps a flock of pigeons on his rooftop may find himself in a domain populated by lots of strangely intelligent birds, who light on every tree
and watch everyones movements.

But the domain of the Darklord is also a prison. No Darklord

Why domains? can leave their own domain. Some feel an overwhelming
The decision to give Darklords on Gothic Earth domains was sense of dread as they approach the borders of their domain.
myriad. Primarily we wanted to make Darklords distinct from Others feel nothing. But one thing is clear - if any Darklord
the other threats on Gothic Earth. But also, we wanted to give attempts to cross the borders of their domain, it causes them
the setting a little something different. If it were only a untold pain. For that reason, most Darklords will not venture
modern update of the Masque of the Red Death setting, then close to the borders of their own domains.
really, what would be the point? Finally, we wanted to make
the Gothic Earth Eternal setting more in keeping with the A Darklords domain is not just a prison in the physical
ideas and themes of Ravenloft. sense. It is also acts as a psychological torture chamber. For
example, a Darklord who drowned her own children might
find herself trapped in a town where the birthrate is unnaturally high, so there are children everywhere, constantly reminding her of her own
awful deeds. Each domain is twisted perfectly to assail the Darklord with guilt, pain, anguish, and suffering.

closing the Borders

Most, but not all Darklords can close the borders of their domain. They can do so with a thought. Some domain closures are actually
surmountable. For example, a darklord might be able to make a ring of fire around their domain, but anyone in an aircraft can fly over it. Some
have domains that cannot be crossed by any means, such as a barrier of mist that one may travel into, but only to finds themselves back in the
domain when the fog clears away.

Closing the border of a domain is never done lightly. When a domain border closes, typically all forms of communication through the border get
cut off. Cell phones go ahead. Electricity ceases to flow across wires. Highways are shut down. Sections of the planet go dark from satellites.
Thus, closing the border of a domain is a blatant and flagrant act of supernatural power. And usually when a Darklord does something like that,
other Darklords will either see it as a challenge or a threat to the status quo.
The creatures of darkness know that the Rule Unspoken keeps them alive. Because no one wants to talk about the supernatural, the denizens of
Gothic Earth can usually act unmolested. However, all of these creatures of the night know that large and blatant displays of power will erode
the Rule Unspoken. And no one wants that. Because if humanity ever rallies together and rises up against its oppressors, it would mean another
Great Purge.

For that reason, many Darklords will refrain from closing their borders. Instead, they save this one power for only when they have nothing else
to lose.

Escaping a Domain
On Gothic Earth, it is possible to escape particular domains. This possibility is not just something only within mortal grasp. Darklords, too, can
sometimes escape their mystical prisons. In 1945, a secret research branch of Hilters SS forces conducted an ancient ritual which was able to
break the borders of a domain and set a Darklord free. But the ritual, a magical rite recovered from the great and insidious Imhotep, was
imperfect. The Darklord went mad and tore through the SS soldiers on the site. To this day, he is still missing.

Since that time, other Darklords have attempted to replicate the ritual, with varying results. A few Darklords have destroyed themselves in the
process. One Darklord was consumed in a terrible conflagration along with her entire domain. Some Darklords have gone mad. A small few
have actually made it out of their enigmatic prisons...but with a price.

It seems that once a Darklord does escape her domain, she starts to die. Her body begins to wither. Her powers begin to fade. And once in this
delicate position, often her enemies will begin hunting for her in earnest.

The only way to survive, once free, is to establish a new domain in a new location. The few Darklords that have been able to do this did it the
only way they knew how - enacting another Ultimate Act of Darkness.

So the question remains - why would any Darklord want to be free? After all, it just means that the Darklord gets weaker and possibly dies. The
answer is myriad. Many Darklords attempt to escape out of hubris. They have heard the stories of other villains dying or being driven mad. But
they believe such an event wont happen to them. Many Darklords just want to taste freedom. Even if it is just for a day or two, they want to see
the world that has been denied them. Other Darklords do it out of a sense of necessity. For example, a Darklord who is being hounded by a rival
or a group of powerful adventurers might have to find some way out of her prison to escape. Still others have a long-range plan. They move their
entire operations as a single move in a globe-spanning chess game.

Escape from Domains?

The possibility of escape from domains was created to give game
masters deeper and richer story options. Now, a Darklord isnt just
languishing away in their domain. They could be trying to get out.
Maybe they are already out and about to enact their next Ultimate
Act of Darkness. Maybe one Darklord has escaped and is in the domain
of other Darklord. The possibilities abound.

And, of course, being able to move domains gives game masters more
creative freedom as well. If the heroes have fought and vanquished
a Darklord in one location, you can have him appear in another,
completely different location for more insidious fun.
Perhaps. We will need to ask Sarah Davis, wont we?

--- On Tue 9/27/09 RosCruGROUP1 Gabrielle <alpha996@...> wrote:

>
> But the part about special people is intriguing. Referring to the Corrupted? Even Darklords?
>
>
>
> > --- On Mon 9/26/09 RosCruGROUP1 Wiseman <magi@...> wrote:
>>
> > If he did see Her, it doesnt matter. He only saw what She wanted him to see. She wears many faces. Many masks.
>>
>>
>>
> > > --- On Mon 9/26/09 RosCruGROUP1 Gabrielle <alpha996@...> wrote:
>>>
> > > Thank you, sir. We have a lot more footage, but this is the bit that I wanted
> > > you to see the most. Look at the transcription. Allen Jeffries might have actually seen Her...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> > > > --- On Sun 9/25/09 RosCruGROUP1 Wiseman <magi@...> wrote:
>>>>
> > > > Finally saw the video and transcript. Unfortunate that the asset had to be liquidated. But this looks promising, my dear.
>>>>
>>>>

Jeffries: You see, thats how she wants it. She wants you to keep looking. To keep searching
for the answers.
Ingram: Right. Whos she?
[Davis holds up a hand to Ingram]
Davis: Why? Why does she want us to keep looking?
Jeffries: Because shes a...because she wants you to keep exploring. Dont you see? The more
you explore, the more you seek the answers...the further down the rabbit hole. The further.
The further.
Davis: The further down the rabbit hole. Thats what she wants. Okay. Why, Allen. Why. Just
tell us.
Jeffries: Rabbits. [Incomprehensible] Rabbits.
Davis: Allen!
Jeffries: No, you...you dont... She wants you to keep looking, because the further down the
rabbit hole you go, the more you end up like her.
Ingram: But who....
[Davis holds up a hand to Ingram again]
Davis: And thats what she wants? For us to become like her?
Jeffries: Yeah, yeah. You get it, dont you. [Incomprehensible] I can tell. The look in your
eyes. Youve tasted it. The moist, wet earth down there. The rich, grainy dirt. Black and
wet.
[Davis looks away.]
Ingram : (to Davis) Hey, you with us?
Davis: (speaking in low voice) Does she want everyone to be like her? Is that the point?
Jeffries: No, no! Only...only the special people. You know. Like you, Sarah.
[Davis rises from her chair and begins pacing the room, biting a fingernail.]
Ingram: Well thats great. What else can you tell us, Allen?
Jeffries: (looks at Ingram and pauses) Shes red. Shes red and wears...
Ingram: How about a name.
Jeffries: Shes red. And wears a mask. But she doesnt talk - no, no. Never speaks. Just
gives you ideas. Wonderful ideas. Brilliant ideas.
Ingram: Does she have a name, Allen.
Jeffries: (looks at Ingram again and smiles for a long while) You know it already.
Sir, Im writing this very quickly from a public computer. I suppose with what happened to my car this morning - I take that as a sign
that I have been rendered off-status. Please please please reconsider your assessment.

Please reconsider.

--- On Fri 9/30/09 RosCruGROUP1 Wiseman <magi@...> wrote:

>
> To say that I am disappointed would be a vast understatement, my dear. This does not look good for the project.
>
>
> > --- On Thu 9/29/09 RosCruGROUP1 Gabrielle <alpha996@...> wrote:
>>
> > Sir,
>>
> > I am terribly sorry. I am so terribly sorry.
>>
> > I do think that the session was a valuable one. Potential for significant intelligence gains here. Our analysts are pouring
> > over the video as we speak. Im sure well find some more information.
>>
> > > --- On Thu 9/29/09 RosCruGROUP1 Wiseman <magi@...> wrote:
>>>
> > > Gabrielle.
>>>
> > > How can this be salvaged?
>>>

Ingram: Okay, Sarah. Lets take this from the top again...
Davis: Youre wasting your time, you know. Wasting my time, too. Most importantly...youre
wasting his time. You have to see. Im trying to help you. All of you.
Ingram: Okay, there you go again, Sarah. His time. Talk to me about him.
Davis: (loudly) I already told you about him!
Ingram: You told me a bunch of cryptic statements.
Davis: (waving hand around, arm restraints restricting movement) Its all in there.
Ingram: Take it from the top...
Davis: Well, hes completely different from her. Completely different. You see, I made the
mistake of thinking that they were similar. But theyre not. You have to see. Im trying to save
you.
Ingram: (looking at someone off camera) Okay, now were getting somewhere.
Davis: (lowering voice) You see...she wants...people.
Ingram: Yeah? Wants them how?
Davis: [incomprehensible]
Ingram: Thats disgusting.
Davis: Its true. She wants you to be like her. Same with... (gesturing) ...you see, only the
special people. Special. But him? He doesnt care. He doesnt give a shit. He doesnt want us to
be like him. I thought...I thought... (begins crying)
Ingram: Again with the tears. You know, this is getting old. No one buys it.
Davis: (shouting) HE DOESNT WANT US! HE JUST WANTS TO EAT US! EAT US! EAT US! EAT US!
Ingram: Whoa, whoa. Calm down. (gestures to someone off camera) John, gets us the sedative.
[A man moves into view. He can only seen from the back. The man stops in front of Sarah Davis.
Tyler Ingrams face can be seen, wrenching into an expression of terror. A dark stain begins to
spread over the mans back. Ingram springs up to his feet.]
Ingram: (shouting) Code six! Code six!
[The man presumed to be Johns head rolls backwards off of his shoulders. His body topples.]
Ingram: CODE SIX!
[Where Sarah Davis was sitting appears to be a distorted figure with a wide, gaping mouth. The
eyes cannot be seen, only two small mouths with glistening teeth where eyes should be.]
[Video goes blank]
Daviss voice: ...thats why I have to eat you, first.
[END TAPE]
character Backgrounds
In Gothic Earth Eternal, characters are generally human and human only. As an alternative, to character races, we offer character backgrounds.
Each character background represents a heros upbringing and profession (or former profession). Character backgrounds offer stat adjustments
because ones upbringing and lifestyle helps to mold them. Each background also offers an extra skill to be counted as a class skill. If a character
chooses a background that provides a skill that he or she would have received anyway as a result of their class, they instead receive an additional
+1 bonus to that skill. Character backgrounds also determine ones beginning lifestyle and money. Most significantly, most character
backgrounds provide a spotlight ability.

Spotlight Abilities
A spotlight ability is something a character can perform once a game session. They are dramatic and story-based. For example, a spotlight ability
might allow a character to just happen to know someone in the town the heroes are investigating who can give them inside knowledge.

Once a spotlight ability is performed, no other spotlight ability can be performed that game session. It is strongly recommended that the same character not
be allowed to keep performing their spotlight ability every game session. After all, the game should be about sharing the spotlight, not
dominating it. An easy rule to adopt is that any character cannot perform their spotlight ability in two consecutive game sessions.

As the Game Masters discretion, a Gothic Earth Eternal character can be something else. For example, a character who was born of the fae
might simply choose the elven race found in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. These characters do not get spotlight abilities. Their extraordinary
abilities are thought to be significant enough.

Erudite - This character receives +2 competence bonus to

Basic

Research checks
Well. You dont see that everyday. Gather Information - The academic gets a +2 competence
The basic background represents the large masses of everyday folk bonus to any roll involving the gathering information.
who work, go to school, raise children, or otherwise participate in This may be a Diplomacy check or Perception roll - so
the middle class. This background can also be a catch-all category long as it is related to the gathering of facts.
which can fit a character whose background doesnt really fit any Additional Language - Academic gets to choose one
of those listed below. additional language in which she is fluent at the
beginning of the game. If this doesnt make sense for the
+2 to an ability of choice character, she may instead declare herself adept at
Beginning Lifestyle: Medium ($100 Cash) computer programming, giving her a +2 competence
Beginning Savings: $1,000 bonus to the Computers skill.

Background Skill Spotlight Ability

Suburban characters receive an extra skill of their choice.
Background Abilities
Special Interest - Suburban characters gain a +2 competence bonus
to a skill of their choice. This specialization must be justified in the
characters background.
Spotlight Ability
Flashback - The basic character has experienced the Rule Unspoken
like most characters on Gothic Earth. When you use this ability,
you may declare a traumatic, supernatural event that happened in
your characters background which ties directly to the plot at hand.
academic
Ive read about these things.
The academic is a character who comes from a background a
scholarship. She either works in academia or as a educator. Her
training and profession make her an excellent source of information
and she is well adept at uncovering vital knowledge.
+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Constitution
Beginning Lifestyle: Medium ($100 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $1,000
Background Skill
Choose one Knowledge skill to be a class skill.
Dread Knowledge - For the academics spotlight ability, she may
declare that she is automatically successful on a single Knowledge
check of her choice.
affluent
Look, Ill cover this.
The affluent character is one who comes from a wealthy
background. He is used to rubbing shoulders with people of means
and power. He may not be in a high-paying job at the start of the
game, but this character has a great deal of resources due to his
background. It is important to note that this character is not just
one who has a lot of money, like someone who won the lottery.
This character was brought up with wealth and knows other people
who are wealthy.
+2 Charisma and -2 to Strength
Beginning Lifestyle: Pricey ($1,000 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $10,000
Background Skill
Affluent characters can choose any one additional skill to be a class
skill.
Background Abilities
Rich - This character receives +2 to Finance checks
Socialite - This character +2 to one Charisma-based skill

Background Abilities Spotlight Ability

Society Connections - You may declare that you know a person of
significance and power (a city official, senator, FBI administrator)
and can contact that person with a reasonable degree of alacrity.
Your character and his contact are on good terms. The contacts
disposition starts out as Friendly.
Blue collar
And I thought Id seen it all.... Sudden Speed (Su) - Changelings with this power may move at
The blue collar background means that your character worked in
industry, service, or did physical labor in her past life. Somewhere
along the way, she was drawn into the secret struggle of the
Eternal Night. She may come from a simple background, but its
assumed that your character has earned some degree of wisdom
from her hard-knock experiences.
+2 Constitution, +2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma
Beginning Lifestyle: Medium ($100 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $1,000
Background Skill
Choose one Profession skill to be a class skill for your character.
Background Abilities
Scrappy - This character receives a +1 to his CMB and CMD.
Streetwise - This character receives a +2 to Sense Motive checks.
Spotlight Ability
I Know a Guy - You may declare that your character has a contact
from her past. This contact may be from any walk of life. They just
happened to have met your character in the past. The contacts
disposition starts out as Indifferent to you.
changeling
The things Ive seen....
Changelings are a characters who is not entirely human. Perhaps
they have the cure of lycanthropy in their family, even though they
themselves did not gain the lycanthropic curse. Perhaps they have
the blood of an ancient vampire family within their veins. Or,
perhaps they dont even know what they are. Because of the
changeling curse, these poor souls can rarely stay in one place or
form long lasting relationships. The friends and allies they do make
are often precious to them.
+2 Strength +2 Wisdom, and -2 to Intelligence
Beginning Lifestyle: Poor ($10 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $500
Background Skill
Changelings receive Survival as an extra skill.
Background Abilities - Choose two
Supernatural Vision (Su) - The changeling character starts with
darkvision.
Bestial Change (Su) - The changeling can gain a +4 morale bonus to
Strength and a +2 bonus to Fortitude and Reflex saves. However,
the character suffers a -2 penalty to Will saves and Defense.
Changelings can assume bestial form as a swift action and can
maintain it for a total of 2 rounds per level per day. Changelings
can assume bestial form multiple times, burning up use of her
power each time. Whenever a changeling assumes bestial form, it is
obvious unless they are hidden behind concealment (such as dim
light, shadows, or a mask). The types of change they go under
varies from being to being. After assuming bestial form, there is no
after-effect.
Animal Control (Su) - Some changelings can influence the animal
world. Once per day, these beings can attempt to control the mind
of an animal. The animal get a Will save, with the DC equal to 10
plus half of the characters level and Wisdom modifier. Failure
means that the animal obeys the changelings mental commands.
The effect lasts 10 minutes per character level.
Vanish (Su) - Changelings with this power may Hide in Plain sight
for a limited time. Hiding in Plain sight allows a character to make
a Stealth check even without concealment or cover. This power last
for only a single round. At 5 level, the power lasts for 2 rounds.
th
double their normal speed for one round a day. At 5 level, they can
th
move double their normal speed for two rounds a day.
Drawbacks
Dreadful Aura - Animals do not like the changeling and are
immediately Unfriendly or Hostile to this character. Likewise,
people tend to get the creeps around him. This heightened state
of alertness means that people get a +2 to use Sense Motive on this
character.
Strange Compulsion - The changeling must engage in some form of
abhorrent and ritualistic behavior on a regular basis. He may need
to drink blood, eat rotting meat, or engage in a twisted ritual.
Whatever the compulsion, the changeling must engage in it once a
day and the act takes at least 10 minutes. Failure to enact his
compulsion means that the character becomes agitated, receiving a
-1 to all to hit, saves, and attack rolls. This penalty increases each
day he goes without his compulsion to a maximum of -5. After five
days, he must make a Will save each day or to go into a rage, trying
to desperately act upon his twisted desire. The Will save is equal to
10 plus his character level. If he is allowed to engage in his
compulsion, the penalties go away.
Spotlight Ability
None
criminal
Ill do what needs to get done.
A character with a criminal background is one that grew up in
trouble on the streets. She has had to learn to live life on her own,
without the help of others. Her past could still be haunting her, or
she might have long buried it behind her.
+2 Constitution, +2 Strength, and -2 to Wisdom
Beginning Lifestyle: Medium ($100 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $500
Background Skill
Criminal characters receive Stealth, Sleight of Hand, or Disable
Device as an extra skill.
Background Abilities
Dangerous Mind - Criminals get a +1 bonus to their Defense and
CMD
Alert - A criminal gets +4 to Perception rolls to avoid surprise.
Spotlight Ability
Underworld Contact - You may declare for your character that he
knows a particular underworld entity who owes him a favor. This
underworld contact can get access to illicit or restricted goods. This
declared NPC starts out as Indifferent to the criminal character.
ecclesiastic
I live to serve.
Characters who are either devoutly religious, have gone through
religious training, or are part of a church all have the ecclesiastic
background. Characters with this background do not necessarily
have to work for or even belong to a church. They merely need to
have researched and extensively participated in their religion.
+2 Charisma, +2 to Intelligence, and -2 to Constitution might declare that all of the furniture in the room starts to rise, but
Beginning Lifestyle: Cheap ($50 Cash) the GM might conclude the even with the furniture attacking
Beginning Savings: $7,000 everyone in the room - friend or foe alike.

Background Skill
Ecclesiastics receive Knowledge (Religion) as an extra class skill. Law enforcement
Dont worry, Ill make this right.
Background Abilities Characters with this background have been trained as law
Calm - Trained to deal with others in times of stress, an ecclesiastic enforcement personnel. They served as police, FBI, or in some
character gains a +2 to Diplomacy form of security. It is possible that they are no longer serving as law
Discerning - Members of a large, organized religion are trained to enforcement, but the fact remains that they were trained for it.
deal with people and address their problems. They receive a +2 to
Sense Motive rolls. +2 to an ability of choice
Beginning Lifestyle: Cheap ($50 Cash)
Additional - Choose One Beginning Savings: $7,000
Act of Faith - The ecclesiastic character can call upon his faith. Once
per day, this character can channel 1d6 points positive energy. Background Skill
Channeling positive energy causes an invisible, intangible, and Characters with the law enforcement background receive
soundless burst of energy. The burst occurs in a 30-foot radius Knowledge (Law) as an extra class skill.
centered on the scholar. Any undead within the burst radius takes
damage, but also gets a Will save to halve the damage. The Will
Background Abilities
save is 10 + arcane scholars level + arcane scholars Wisdom
Earned Badge - You receive a +1 to all Sense Motive and Intimidate
bonus. If the character already has the channel positive energy
checks.
class ability, then the ecclesiastic can add 1d6 to all positive energy
Firearms Training - Law enforcement characters begin the game
damage whenever he uses that class ability.
with proficiency in both pistols and rifles. If they choose a class
which also gives them this benefit, they may choose instead to start
Hierarchy Contact - This ecclesiastic character can call upon his
with the Point-Blank Shot feat.
contacts from within the religious organization that he works.
These special contacts are more than aware of the evil that stains
Spotlight ability
the globe and are able to provide advice against the forces of
Law Enforcement Contacts - This character may declare that he or she
darkness. Contacts of this nature start out as Friendly towards the
has an old friend in the local law enforcement department, even if
ecclesiastic character. This ability is a Spotlight Ability.
the character never worked the area. This NPC starts as Friendly
in disposition towards the law enforcement character.
haunted
Now, youve made her angry....
The haunted characters are ones that have faced the terrors of the
military
They never covered this is Basic.
night for all of their lives. Perhaps they see dead people walking
Characters with military backgrounds were once part of the armed
around, all of the time. Or perhaps they have been the victim of
forces or still work for them. If they have left the military,
some terrible, supernatural attack. In any case, haunted characters
characters with this background do not necessarily have to have
have marked souls that make them intense, willful people.
any current military obligations.
However, their tortured lives often means that they dont take the
best care of themselves.
+2 to an ability of choice
Beginning Lifestyle: Medium ($100 Cash)
Constitution +2, Wisdom +2, Charisma -2
Beginning Savings: $1,000
Beginning Lifestyle: Cheap ($50 Cash)
Beginning Savings: $500
Background Skill
Military characters receive Survival as an extra skill.
Background Skill
Haunted characters receive Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) as an
Background Abilities
extra skill.
Combat Training - All characters with military as their background
receive a +1 to attack rolls with Firearms.
Background Abilities
Firearms Training - Law enforcement characters begin the game
Willfull - Haunted characters receive a +2 to all Willpower saving
with proficiency in both pistols, rifles, and assault weapons. If they
throws.
choose a class which also gives them this benefit, they may choose
Paranoid - These poor souls receive a +2 to Perception checks, but a
instead to start with the Point-Blank Shot feat.
-2 to all Sense Motive checks, due to their overly suspicious nature.
Through the Mind of Madness - Haunted characters have had their
Spotlight Ability
minds tortured more than most. They only take one-half of all
Military Contact - Military characters may declare that they know
sanity damage.
someone at the local military base. Keep in mind that military
personnel often have little authority outside of their own bases.
Spotlight Ability
However, sometimes they can provide links to other, outside
Haunted event - The haunted character may declare that something
contacts. This contact starts as Indifferent to the military character.
supernatural happens. What exactly happens is given broad
purview, since the nature of a character hauntings vary. What the
player is allowed to do is to set-up what is happening in the
naturalist
supernatural event. However, the GM is the one who concludes The world shouldnt be this way.
how the event concluded. For example, the haunted character The naturalist background is for characters who have grown up
outdoors or in the wilderness. Characters who like to go hiking and
camping, former park rangers, hunters, or field biologists would all
fall into this category.

+2 Charisma, +2 to an ability of choice, and -2 to Strength

Beginning Lifestyle: Pricey
Beginning Savings: $10,000

Background Skill
Naturalists receive both Survival and Handle Animal as extra class
skills.

Background Abilities
Naturally - Naturalist characters receive +2 bonuses to Acrobatics,
Climb, and Swim.
Tracking - A naturalist can use Survival to track quarry. If the a
naturalist character chooses Hunter as her class, she instead
receives a +2 bonus on all Survival checks.

Spotlight Ability
Safe Refuge - Instead of declaring that she knows someone of
import, a naturalist character can declare that she knows of a safe
haven that is hidden away from almost all but the cleverest of
opponents. This safe refuge is always someplace remote, but not so
remote as to be completely inconvenient to access. Characters do
have the onus to first get to the safe refuge in order to take
advantage of it. If the GM wants something bad to happen at the
safe refuge, he must spend 2 Twists to do so.
The core claSses
The character classes on Gothic Earth Eternal represents a path that one of her heroes has chosen. Each class, as it advances,
gains powerful abilities that can be wielded against the terrors that lurk between the shadows. It is presumed that each character
on Gothic Earth has some capability to fight evil. For those players wanting to choose someone who is a bit more uninitiated to
fighting the supernatural, the Steady class best describes that role.

The hunter
Dont worry, they cant hide from me.

There are those who fight the darkness, like the trooper. There are those who peer into it, like the investigator. And then, there are
those who track the darkness to its lair, driving a stake into its heart. Some of these individuals are wanderers, living from off of
faked credit cards or the meager wages of whatever job they can pick up. Some, instead, lurk quietly in society only activating
when called upon or when their hated enemies rear their heads. Still others are parts of larger organizations, specially trained
operatives who are trained in taking care of evil where it lives.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +1 +1 +2 +2 +0 1st favored enemy, born predator, hunter talent,
track
2nd +2 +2 +3 +3 +0 Combat style feat, night stalker
3rd +3 +2 +3 +3 +1 Endurance, 1st oath of vengeance
4th +4 +3 +4 +4 +1 Hunters Bond, hunter talent
5th +5 +3 +4 +4 +1 2nd favored enemy
6th +6/+1 +3 +5 +5 +2 Combat style feat
7th +7/+2 +4 +5 +5 +2 Go unnoticed, hunter talent
8th +8/+3 +4 +6 +6 +3 Swift tracker, combat style feat
9th +9/+4 +5 +6 +6 +3 Evasion
10th +10/+5 +5 +7 +7 +3 3rd favored enemy, hunter talent, combat style
feat
Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d10
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score + 5
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score

Class Skills
Appraise, Bluff, Climb, Craft, Disguise, Disable Device, Drive, Escape Artist, Handel Animal, Intimidate, Knowledge (Current
Events), Knowledge (Forbidden Lore), Knowledge (Naturalist), Knowledge (Occult), Knowledge (Religion), Linguistics,
Medicine, Perception, Profession, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Spellcraft, Stealth, Survival, Swim
Skill Ranks per Level: 6+Int Modifier

Class Features Bluff, Knowledge, Perception, Sense Motive, and Survival

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies: A hunter begins
proficiencies in light armor as well as all pistols, rifles, and
automatic weapons. She begins with melee proficiency in all
simple and martial weapons as well.
Favored Enemy (Ex): At 1st level, the hunter selects a
creature type from the list below. She gains a +2 bonus on
checks against creatures of the selected type. Likewise, she
gains a +2 bonus on weapon attack and damage against
them. A hunter may make a Knowledge skill check
untrained when attempting to identify these creatures.
At 5th level and every level thereafter, the hunter may
select an additional favored enemy. In addition, at each
interval, the bonus against any one favored enemy
(including the one just selected if so desired) increases by
+2.
Possible Favored Enemies
Aberrations
Constructs
Dragons
Fey
Fiends (demons, devils, outsiders, etc.)
Goblinoids
Manitou
Mummies
Oni
Shapechangers (werewolves, werejackals, etc.)
Spirits (ghosts, wraiths, specters, shadows, etc.)
Undead (anything undead but not a mummy, spirit,
vampire, or zombie)
Vampires
Zombies
Track (Ex): A hunter adds half of her level (minimum of 1)
to Survival skill checks made to follow or identify tracks or
signs of someones passing.
Born Predator: A hunter may transform any Lore token
(Foresight, Gnosis, Data, or Clue) into a Wariness token. As
with most characters, a hunter may only have one Lore
token at a time.
Combat Style Feat (Ex): A ranger must choose one of three
combat styles to pursue: ranged, two-weapon style, or
martial arts. The hunters expertise manifests in the form of
bonus feats at 2nd level and every four levels thereafter.
If the hunter selects the ranged style, she can choose
from the following list whenever he gains a combat style
feat: Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, and Rapid
Shot. At 6th level, she adds: Improved Precise Shot and
Manyshot. At 10th level, she adds Pinpoint Targeting and
Shot on the Run.
If the hunter selects two-weapon combat, she can choose
from the following list: Double Slice, Quick Draw, and
Two-Weapon Fighting. At 6th level, she adds Improved
Two-Weapon Fighting and Two-Weapon Defense to the
list. At 10th level, she adds Greater Two-Weapon Fighting
and Two-Weapon Rend to the list.
If the hunter selects martial arts, she can choose from the
following list: Combat Expertise, Defensive Combat
Training, Dodge, Human Weapon*, Improved Disarm,
Improved Feint, Improved Trip, and Improved Unarmed
Strike. At 6th level, she adds Greater Disarm, Greater Feint,
Greater Trip, Improve Grapple, Mobility, Scorpion Style,
and Gorgons Fist to the list. At 10th level, she adds Spring
Attack, Stunning Fist, Wind Stance, and Lightning Stance
to the list.
Night Stalker (Ex): At 2nd level, the hunter learns to
analyze her opponents, putting her into a state of high alert
and mindfulness. Anytime she has successfully tracked an
enemy on two separate occasions, she may gain a Wariness
token. She may spend a Wariness token to gain a to re-roll
any skill check.
She may also give this Wariness token, to another
character by having at least a minute-long conversation with
them, as she coaches them about the dangers of the night,
putting her ally into a state of readiness.
Endurance: At 3rd level, the hunter gains Endurance as a
bonus feat.
Oath of Vengeance (Ex or Su): At 3rd level, a hunter can
hone herself into a weapon specifically designed against a
particular creature. To enact the oath of vengeance, the
hunter must first know what kind of creature she is facing
(whether it be a werewolf, golem, dryad etc). Then, she
must spend seven hours readying herself. This time spent
need not be all at once. It might be merely an hour a day
over the course of a week, or any other division thereof.
The preparation needed varies from hunter to hunter.
Some undergo a mystic ritual (making this a supernatural
ability; it is an extraordinary ability otherwise). Others pour
over notes about the creature, usually pinning up newspaper
clippings and diagrams on a wall. These collages are usually
created with maps, strings connecting ideas, and other
assorted madness.
Once the oath of vengeance has been enacted, the hunter
gains a +2 to initiative, Knowledge (Forbidden Lore),
Perception, Stealth, and Survival checks. These bonuses
persist so long as she is actively pursing her quarry. They go
away if she stops the pursuit, but then return once the hunt
resumes. The GM has final say over whether or not the
hunter is actually in pursuit of her quarry or not.
There are drawbacks to the oath of vengeance. While the
oath has been enacted, the hunter is consumed by her hunt.
This distraction gives her -2 penalty to Diplomacy and Sense
Motive checks as well as Will saves.
Hunters Sight (Ex): At 4th level, the hunter may spend a
move action to grant certain allies half of her favored enemy
bonus to damage against a single target of the appropriate
type. To receive this bonus, her allies must be within 30 feet,
as well as be able to see and hear her. This bonus does not
stack with other hunters sight bonuses.
Go Unnoticed (Ex): Hunters train constantly to blend into
the general populace. At 7th level, a hunter may attempt to
hide in a crowd, even while being observed.
In addition, the hunter who fails a Stealth check and is
noticed while trying to slip into a crowd may re-roll that
failed Stealth check.
Swift Tracker (Ex): At 8th level, a hunter can move at her
normal speed while using Survival to follow tracks.
Normally, she or anyone else would suffer a -5 penalty. She
takes only a -10 penalty (instead of the normal -20) to track
a quarry moving at twice her normal speed.
Evasion (Ex): At this level, the hunter may avoid area
attacks (such as the ones caused by magic or automatic fire).
If she makes a successful Reflex save, attacks which
normally deal half damage on a successful save deal none.
Hunter Talents:
Cowboy Up (Ex): As a standard action, the hunter heals 1d8
points of damage + her Constitution modifier. For every four
levels the hunter as attained above 4th, this healing goes up
by one die. Thus, she would heal 2d8 + her Con bonus at 8th
level. The hunter must be 4th level to take this talent.
Low-Light Vision (Ex): Through extensive training and drive,
hunter gains low-light vision.
normally provoked an attack of opportunity. This talent may
only be taken at level 7 or higher.
Wolfs Reflexes (Ex): The hunters honed senses make it
difficult for her to be taken unawares. She may re-roll
Perception checks to avoid being surprised.

Protective Charm (Sp): The hunter can craft a protective
charm that she can herself wear or give to another. It is
usually a small item like a pin, ring, bracelet, or a medicine
bag. Creating the charm only takes 10 minutes, but hunter
can only create and maintain one such charm at a time. The
charm grants a special +2 bonus to save vs. a spell effect or a
+2 to Defense.
If the wearer is wearing the charm that protects against
spells and succeeds in a save against a spell, then the charm
becomes inert. Likewise, if the wearer is wearing a charm
that provides a +2 to Defense and is missed by an attack, the
charms magic fades.
If the protective charm is given to another person, the
hunter will always know immediately if the wearer takes
damage or is rendered helpless.
Unexpected Strike (Ex): The hunter can make an attack of
opportunity against a foe who moves into any square
threatened by her, regardless if that move would have
Leave No Trace (Ex): As a skilled survivalist, the hunter now
naturally covers her tracks and signs of her passing. Even
without thinking about it. Anyone tracking her must beat
her in an opposed Survival check, even if she has spent no
time covering her tracks. (Normally, someone covering their
tracks can make an opposed Survival check against their
pursuer, but it takes time to do.)
Also, she leaves nearly no signs of her presence in the
places she stays like hotels, used cars, or sometimes even her
own place of residence. Those looking for clues about her in
an urban environment may attempt to make a Perception
check to find such clues, but still have to beat the hunters
opposed Survival check. Again, this happens even if the
hunter has made no effort to hide her passing.
When making these opposed Survival checks, the hunter
receives a +5 bonus and may always take 10.
Sleep with One Eye Open (Ex): The hunter gains the bonus feat
- Sleep with One Eye Open.

The Investigator
I think Ive figured it out.

Gothic Earth is a place of mysteries, secrets, and conspiracies. So it is only natural that some upon this shadowed planet would
seek its secrets. Investigators come from all walks of life. They might be trying to find proof of existence of extraterrestrials or a
way to stop supernatural forces. FBI agents, private investigators, police detectives, or canny professional writers make good
investigators.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +0 +1 +0 +2 +2 Detective, inquisitive, precision strike 1d6,
signature firearm
2nd +1 +2 +0 +3 +3 Evidence gathering, clever, investigator talent
3rd +2 +2 +1 +3 +3 Clue Magnet
4th +3 +3 +1 +4 +4 Precision strike 2d6, investigator talent
5th +3 +3 +1 +4 +4 Good Hunches
6th +4 +3 +2 +5 +5 Investigator talent
7th +5 +4 +2 +5 +5 Precision strike, 3d6
8th +6/+1 +4 +2 +6 +6 Investigator talent
9th +6/+1 +5 +3 +6 +6 Hard Boiled
10th +7/+2 +5 +3 +7 +7 Precision strike 4d6, Investigator talent

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d8
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score + 5
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score
Class Skills
Appraise, Bluff, Computers, Diplomacy, Disable Device, Disguise, Drive, Escape Artist, Intimidate, Knowledge (Current
Events), Knowledge (Forbidden Lore), Knowledge (History), Knowledge (Law), Knowledge (Occult), Knowledge (Profession),
Knowledge (Psychology), Linguistics, Perception, Pilot, Research, Sense Motive
Skill Ranks per Level: 6+Int Modifier
Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: An investigator begins
with proficiency in light and medium armor as well as pistols
and rifles. He begins with melee proficiency in all simple
weapons.
Inquisitive: An investigator may transform any Lore token
(Foresight, Data, Gnosis, or Wariness) into a free Clue
token. As with most characters, an investigator may only
have one Lore token at a time.
Detective (Ex): An investigator adds her level (minimum
of 1) to Perception skill checks when looking for clues or
evidence. She gains this bonus to her Sense Motive checks
against anothers Bluff check.
Precision Strike (Ex): An investigator is well-trained in
observing others and in discerning weaknesses most of all.
During combat, if an investigator spends a move action
observing a target, she may mark that target for ranged
precision strikes. A precision strike can only be made with
the investigators signature firearm and only one target in
range may be marked for precision strike at a time.
As long as the target is marked, the investigator does the
extra damage listed. A target loses its mark if it is ever out of
range, no longer in line of sight, or the encounter ends. Once
the extra damage is done to a target, it also loses its mark. A
target that is adjacent to the investigator does not lose its
mark, but is immune to precision strike damage.
If the investigator gets multiple attacks, only the first
attack that hits is a precision strike.
Signature Firearm (Ex): At 1st level, the investigator begins
with a signature firearm, which is a weapon that she has
proficiency in. This signature firearm must be a pistol. With
that firearm, she receives a +1 to hit. Should she ever lose it,
she can make another weapon of the same make and model
into her new signature weapon by spending a day
familiarizing herself with it.
An investigator can change the make and model of her
signature weapon each time she reaches a new level.
Evidence Gathering (Ex): An investigator who is able to
find out about his quarry can prove more effective against it.
An investigator who uncovers at least three facts about a
particular quarry (creature type, general appearance, and/or
one or more of its abilities or powers) may gain a Lore
(Clue) token about the particular target. An investigator
may only have one Lore token at a time.
This Clue token can be spent at any time to gain a +2
tactical bonus hit or damage the creature or gain a +2 to a
skill roll involving the being in question. It may also be given
to another player character for the listed bonuses. Giving a
Clue token to another character requires at least a minute of
uninterrupted conversation.
Clever (Ex): Once per game session, an investigator can use
her instincts to get a sense of the right course of action.
Basically, the investigator can determine if a particular
course of action will bring a good result to the party, a poor
result, or neither.
Clue Magnet (Ex): At 3rd level, whenever the investigator
passes within 10 feet of some clue or piece of evidence that
may lead to something she is pursuing, she gets an automatic
Perception check to sense it. Should she sense it, she will be
drawn by her subconscious to the clue though interpreting
what it means is another matter entirely. In addition, the
investigator can always take 10 when searching for clues.
Good Hunches (Ex): Investigators are careful to weigh
their options and make decisions based on the highest
scrutiny. Once per game, when the GM grants a Hunch, you
may eliminate one of the options for free. For example, if the
GM offers a Hunch with four different locations, you can
ask that one of the false locations be eliminated, giving you a
choice of three. For any given Hunch, only one choice may
be eliminated in this way, even if multiple investigators are
present.
Hard Boiled (Ex): Either because of your dogged pursuit of
the truth or because fate has special plans for you your
character is not brought low as easily by setbacks as others.
Whenever you take on a Setback, and do not activate it in
the next meaningful scene, you may keep the Setback
instead having it turn into a Twist. If it is not activated in a
second meaningful scene, however, it becomes a Twist as
normal.
Investigator Talents
Anticipation (Ex): Once per encounter, an investigator can
spend a swift action to observe a target and better anticipate
his opponents attacks. The investigator gains 2 bonus hit
points per level that are set aside. These special hit points are
deducted from any attack coming directly from the
investigators declared target first, before deducting his
normal hit points. These temporary hit points disappear if
not consumed at the end of the encounter. An investigator
must be 6th level to take this talent.
Bonus combat feat: An investigator who selects this talent gets
a bonus combat feat. This talent can only be selected twice.
Shared Strike (Ex): After hitting an opponent in combat, the
investigator can open up opportunities for her allies. After a
successful attack, as a swift action, you may grant an ally +2
tactical bonus to hit the same target. This ability can only be
used twice per encounter.
Deepest Secrets (Ex): By finding out someones inner
motivations, an investigator can use those motivations
against them, uncovering their fears, hates, and passions.
Once per game session, this investigator can attempt a
special Sense Motive check against a particular target. If
successful, she gains a +10 bonus on her next Intimidate
check against that same target. The target must be equal to
or less than she is in hit dice or levels.
Dabbler (Sp): An investigator with this talent has learned
some basic rotes of magic. She can cast three 0-level spells
once a day and 1st level spell twice a day. These spells can be
from either the arcane or divine list. The caster level for this
ability is equal to the investigators character level. The save
DC for this spell is 11 + her Wis modifier.
Should the investigator take a spell-casting advanced
class, she counts as one-level higher for determining spell
effects.
Each time an investigator advances in level, she may
trade out the spells she knows for other ones of the
appropriate level.
Discern Lies (Ex): You are an expert on parsing out deception
from the truth. The target gets a Will save against this
ability, with a DC equal to 10 + your Investigator level +
your Wisdom bonus. If the target succeeds, he or she is
immune to this ability for the rest of the encounter. If it fails,
you may detect if the target is knowingly and willingly lying.
This ability does not reveal what the truth is, uncover
unintentional inaccuracies, or necessarily reveal evasions.
An investigator cannot take this ability until 8th level.
From My Cold, Dead Hands (Ex): While wielding your
signature weapon, you may always re-roll one attack roll per
combat encounter.
Mind Like a Steel Trap (Ex): Investigators have to deal with
both harsh realities and the darkness of Gothic Earth. As
seekers of darkness, their minds have to be honed like
blades. Any time you fail a Will save due to a charm,
compulsion, or fear effect, you may re-roll it. This does not
apply to Horror checks.
Ol Betsy (Ex): Your signature weapon gains a +2 to damage.
Debilitating Hit (Ex): This investigator knows how to hit and
how to make it count. Any victim of one of her precision
strikes also becomes sickened for one round. Opponents
may make a Fort save as a free action each round after the
first to shake the effect. The DC of the Fort save is equal to
10 + the Investigators level + her Wisdom bonus. An
investigator cannot take this talent until 6th level.
Uncanny dodge (Ex): An investigator can react to danger
before her senses would normally allow. She cannot be
caught flat-footed, even if the attacker is invisible. She still
loses her Dexterity bonus to Defense if immobilized. She
also still loses her Dexterity bonus to Defense if an opponent
successfully uses the feint action upon her.
Well-Versed (Ex): After spending a standard action to
observe her target, an investigator can better anticipate her
opponents attacks. She gains a +2 competence bonus to her
Defense when being attacked by that target for the rest of
the encounter. This bonus rises to +3 at 7rd level, +4 at 10th
level.

The scholar
Not everything is as it seems here....

Throughout history, there have been those who have dedicated their minds to battling the Masques and all of their minions. These
are often the unsung heroes: those who research in musty libraries, those that advise the hunters of the dark. Yet, as both the
keepers and seekers of secret knowledge they play one of the most important roles against the forces of darkness.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +0 +0 +0 +0 +2 Student of the world, advisor, scholar talent
2nd +1 +1 +0 +0 +3 Knowledge is power, scholar talent
3rd +1 +1 +1 +1 +3 Channel Energy 2d6
 4th +2 +1 +1 +1 +4 Scholar talent
5th +2 +2 +1 +1 +4 Advisor +3, channel energy 3d6
6th +3 +2 +2 +2 +5 Scholar talent
7th +3 +2 +2 +2 +5 Channel energy 4d6, Knowledge is Power 2
8th +4 +3 +2 +2 +6 Scholar talent
9th +4 +3 +3 +3 +6 Channel Energy 5d6
10th +5 +3 +3 +3 +7 Dispel Evil, scholar talent

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d6
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score + 5

Class Skills
Appraise, Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge (Current Events), Knowledge (Forbidden Lore), Knowledge (History), Knowledge
(Law), Knowledge (Naturalist), Knowledge (Occult), Knowledge (Profession), Knowledge (Psychology), Knowledge (Religion),
two more Knowledges of choice, Linguistics, Medicine, Perception, Research, Sense Motive, Spellcraft
Skill Ranks per Level: 8+Int Modifier

Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiencies: A scholar begins with
melee proficiency in simple weapons, but has no other
training of any kind with other weapons or armor.
Student of the World: A scholar may transform any Lore
token (Foresight, Clue, Data, or Wariness ) into a Gnosis
token. Unlike most characters, a scholar may only have two
Lore tokens at a time.
Also, a scholar adds half his class level (minimum 1) to
all Knowledge skill checks and may make all Knowledge
checks untrained.
Advisor (Ex): After spending a standard action to give
advice, a scholar may grant an ally a +2 competence bonus to
a skill. That ally continues to receive the bonus as long as he
can hear the Scholar and the scholar spends a free action
each round to give advice and grant the bonus. The Scholar
can only help one person at a time. The bonus rises to +3 at
5th level.
Knowledge is Power (Ex): The scholar may study a
supernatural opponent and aid his allies against him. The
scholar must first uncover (or be told) three different facts
about his quarry. Then, the scholar may gain a Lore
(Gnosis) token.
Gnosis token may be spent to gain +1d6 damage against
any creature of the type that information was uncovered.
Every 4 levels thereafter, the damage increases by +1d6.
Thus, at 5th level scholar would gain a +2d6 damage bonus
and at 9th level the damage bonus is +3d6. Once a Gnosis
token is spent, the next attack that hits a creature of the
specified type takes the bonus damage. If the encounter ends
after the Gnosis token is spent but before the extra damage
is used, the token is lost.
This Gnosis token may be passed to another character
through at least a minute of conversation, providing the
same bonus.
Channel Energy (Su): A trained scholar has learned to tap
into the mystic energies of the world, channeling it to burn
the undead. Some scholars focus this energy through a
symbol of faith, others through a relic it all depends on the
culture and persona of the scholar. An arcane scholar can
only choose to channel positive energy, though a dark
scholar may choose which type of energy he wishes to
channel. The scholar cannot choose to heal allies through
channeling energy.
Channeling positive energy causes an invisible,
intangible, and soundless burst of energy. The burst occurs
in a 30-foot radius centered on the scholar. Any undead
within the burst radius takes damage, but also get a Will
save to halve the damage. The Will save is 10 + arcane
scholars level + arcane scholars Wisdom bonus.
Dispel Evil (Sp): At 10th level, the arcane scholar has
become a stalwart champion of good, finally learning how to
exorcise beings of darkness from the mortal realm. He gains
the ability to cast Dispel Evil as a spell-like ability, once per
day.
Scholar Talents
Arcane Ward (Sp): The arcane scholar gains the knowledge of
how to unchain magical threads and manipulate energies.
He gains the ability to Dispel Magic 2/day at his level. At 6th
level, this ward can be placed on an object or sigil.
Whenever any magic (spell or item) comes within 30 feet of
the object or sigil, the Dispel Magic effect triggers. Every
ward that a scholar has up uses up a daily use of Dispel
Magic. Thus, a maximum of two may be maintained at
anytime.
Exemplar (Ex): Pick one Knowledge skill. Whenever you roll
a 2 to 7 on d20 using that particular Knowledge, it is
considered an 8.
Contact Outer Force (Sp): The arcane scholar has the ability to
draw a circle of power and summon force a spiritual being
into the circle of power. While the circle is intact, no force
outside of the circle can harm the being, nor can the being
harm those outside of it. The circle must be empty to
summon a being within it. Breaking the circle sends the
being back to its place of origin.
Once summoned, the spiritual being can answer
questions and converse with the scholar and his companions.
Such creatures undoubtedly possess a great deal of
knowledge, having 30+ ranks in any three knowledge skills
the GM deems appropriate. It should be noted that the being
has no obligation to answer questions or tell the truth.
Which is why arcane scholars often bargain with such
beings - to ensure a truthful the response. Bargain may
include something common like material goods, favors, or
even someones soul. There are no game mechanics attached
to these negotiations PCs simply have to negotiate with the
being before them and hope for the best.
An arcane scholar must be 8th level to take this ability.
Analyzed Defense (Ex): The scholar may study a supernatural
opponent and aid his allies against him. The scholar must
first observe the creature as a standard action and pass a DC
15 Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) check. If he passes the
check, he may advise an ally as a standard action, granting
that ally a +2 tactical bonus to hit or damage against a
supernatural creature for 5 rounds. For every 5 that he
passes his check by, he grants an additional ally this bonus.
He may grant different allies different types of bonuses.
At 7th level, the scholar provides his allies with a +2
tactical bonus on both hit and damage.
Dabbler (Sp): An arcane scholar with this talent has learned
some basic rotes of magic. He can cast three 0-level spells
once a day and one 1st level spell twice a day. These spells
can be from either the arcane or divine list. The caster level
for this ability is equal to the arcane scholars level. The save
DC for this spell is 11 + his Int modifier.
Should the arcane scholar take a spell-casting advanced
class, he counts as one-level higher for determining spell
effects.
Each time an arcane scholar advances in level, he may
trade out the spells he knows for other ones of the
appropriate level.
Protector from Evil (Sp): The scholar has now learned the
basics of arcane protection on Gothic Earth. As a spell-like
ability, he may cast Protection from Evil 3/day. This ability is
highly individualistic and varies depending on the scholars
culture and field of study. It might be a series of mystical
formulae, or the tying of fetishes to the body.
Prepare Weapon (Sp): A scholar may, given an hour, prepare a
weapon to take on the forces of darkness. The scholars
hour-long ritual enchants his allys weapon and the
enchantment last for 6 hours. At first, he may only have one
weapon enchanted at a time. However, at 8th level, the
scholar may enchant two weapons at a time, but each
requires their own, separate ritual. A lesser effect may
always be chosen for a weapon.
At 1st level, an enchanted weapon is a +1 weapon
At 4th level, an enchanted weapon is a +1 flaming,
frost, or shock weapon.
At 7th level, an enchanted weapon is either +2
flaming, frost, or shock; or +1 flaming burst, or +1
shocking burst weapon.
At 10th level, an enchanted weapon is a +2 bane
weapon
Deadly Science (Su): The scholar may make a poultice, flask,
or other hand-held object that may be hurled at a creature to
harm it in a supernatural fashion. First, the scholar must
know three facts about the creature he has designed his
missile for. Once he does, he can then craft a fragile vessel
which will harm any creature of the same type that he has
studied The vessel takes one hour to craft.
The vessel has as many hit points and resistance to
damage as a glass jar. The object requires a fair amount of
resources and care, meaning at first the scholar may only
have one such vessel. At 5th level, he can craft and maintain
two. At 9th level, he may maintain three at a time. All such
vessels must be checked once every four hours or they
become inert.
When the mystical vessel strikes a creature of the type
for which they were crafted (ranged touch attack), the
creature must pass a Fortitude saving throw equal to 10 +
scholars level + scholars Int Bonus. Failure means the
creature is sickened for 1d6+1 rounds.
At 5th level, the scholar can create vessels which can
instead blind their targets for 2 rounds, if the Fort save is
failed.
At 9th level, the scholar can create vessels which stun
their targets for 1 round if the Fort save is failed.
Allergen (Su): Through study, the scholar has uncovered
many weaknesses of children of darkness. He is now able to
create a mystical area that is an anathema to creatures of a
particular type (undead, fey, humanoid, etc.) The area can
be 10 feet in diameter per scholar level. Creating this
mystical zone requires 1 minute per feet in diameter. Thus, a
50 foot diameter area would require 50 minutes.
With the area, creatures of the supposed type suffer a -2
to hit, AC, and saving throws. At 7th level, this penalty
increases to -3.
Strategy (Ex): After discussing strategy with an ally, an
arcane scholar can grant one ally a +4 competence bonus to
one stat (except for Constitution) for 10 min per level. This
discussion takes at least a minute. The ally must be a known
companion, someone who has shared conflict with the
scholar.
At 7th level, he can affect two targets at once.
An arcane scholar must be 4th level to take this talent.

The Steady
Um...guys?

While many who battle the horrors of Gothic Earth are heroes who were born to take up the cause, there are those who have that
mantle thrust upon them. The steady is the incidental hero on Gothic Earth. The high school jock. The girl at the cash register.
The janitor who saw what he wasnt supposed to in the lab... These are the unlikely heroes in the eternal struggle - the common
folk who find within themselves uncommon valor.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +0 +0 +2 +0 +2 Everyday hero, geekery, steady talent
2nd +1 +1 +3 +0 +3 Crazy idea, steady talent, survivor
3rd +2 +1 +3 +1 +3 Heart of a hero
4th +3 +1 +4 +1 +4 Steady talent
5th +3 +2 +4 +1 +4 Not my friends!
6th +4 +2 +5 +2 +5 Steady talent
7th +5 +2 +5 +2 +5 Getting a clue
8th +6/+1 +3 +6 +2 +6 Steady talent
9th +6/+1 +3 +6 +3 +6
10th +7/+2 +3 +7 +3 +7 Steady talent

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d8
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score + 5

Class Skills
Acrobatics, Appraise, Bluff, Climb, Craft, Diplomacy, Disable Device, Drive, choose any three knowledge skills except for
Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) or Knowledge (Occult), Linguistics, Medicine, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand,
Survival, Swim
Skill Ranks per Level: 4+Int Modifier

Class Features

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies: A steady starts with no
weapon or armor proficiencies of any kind.
Everyday Hero: Once per game session, ignore the effects
of a Horror check.
Geekery (Ex): The steady is a student of his own special
realm. Perhaps its sports trivia. Perhaps its comic books.
Perhaps its cooking shows. This special geekery is
represented by a skill called - Geekery. This special skill is
one that he starts with one free 1 rank in and gets a +3 bonus
for it being a class skill.
Once per game session, the Geekery skill may be used by
the steady in place of any other skill. Whenever this is done,
it needs to be justified by the steadys player and linked back
to the steadys realm of geekdom. For example, a steady
might have read in Captain Astounding #33 that one can
walk across a wooden floor by stepping on the studs and
thus use Geekery in place of Stealth. Since this skill must
always be justified, it behooves the player to pick a Geekery
topic that is not too obscure.
Crazy Idea: A steady may transform any Lore token he has
(Foresight, Clue, Data, Gnosis, or Wariness ) into any other
kind. Thus, he can turn a Gnosis token into a Clue token or
vice versa. He can also trade away any Lore token he has to
any other character through a minute of conversation. He
usually does this by putting his own spin on the knowledge
that he has, perhaps...coloring the wisdom that he passes on.
Finally, unlike most characters, the Steady can retain up
to two Lore tokens at a time.
Survivor (Ex): A steady is a survivor. Someone who should
be, by all rights, dead ten times over. At this level, if a steady
takes enough damage that would bring him to 0 hit points or
less, that damage is halved first, then applied.
Heart of a Hero (Ex): The Steady may regain one spent
Hero Point per session.
Not My Friends! (Su): Once per game session, when the
chips are down, the Steady can shine through, hopefully
leading his companions to safety. First, Steady makes
himself a target to a single creature.
If he is hit in melee for any damage at all, that same amount
of damage is instead reflected back on the attacker,
bypassing any damage reduction, as the Steady combats
desperately against the creature.
This effect lasts for 2 rounds or when the Steady dies.
Getting a Clue (Ex): The Steady may now retain up to
three Lore tokens at a time.
Steady Talents
Dumb luck (Ex): Once per encounter, re-roll a skill check or
an attack roll.
Former Athlete (Ex): To choose this ability, the steady must
have some athletic training in his background. This ability
allows the steady a sudden burst of athletic speed. He may
trade in a swift action for a move action.
Former Brain (Ex): To choose this ability, the steady must
have some background in academia or higher learning. This
ability allows the steady, once a game session, to have a
moment of brilliance and make a Knowledge check, even if
he doesnt have the prequisite knowledge. He gets a +3 on
this one roll. The bonus rises to +5 at level 7.
Innocent Bystander (Ex): Once per encounter, a steady can
appear to be just a bystander who is non-threatening to
anyone. Activating this ability is an immediate action. Once
activated, anyone who wishes to attack the steady must
make a Will save with a DC equal to 10 + the steadys level +
his Cha bonus.
Ive Got Your Back (Ex): Once per encounter, when you
perform the aid another, you can grant the bonus to two
people, instead of just one. At 6th level, the number of people
you can help rises to three.
Ive Had Enough of This (Ex): Once per game session, after a
successful melee attack on a creature, the steady can add
+3d6 damage to his attack. At 5th level, this damage rises to
+4d6 and at 10th level, it rises to +5d6.
In order to use this ability, the steady must have taken
damage in the encounter in which Ive Had Enough of This has
been activated.
Mousetrap (Ex): Once per game session, a steady can trigger
environments hazards to harangue his opponents. While
anyone can use the environment to their advantage, because
of his plucky nature, the steady is particularly good at it.
The steady causes this damage by shifting something in
the environment. Perhaps he knocks over a bookshelf or
finds a fire extinguisher and sprays it. In any event, this one,
shining moment either damages or disables the steadys
opponents. The GM is the final arbiter as to whether
something is damaging or disabling.
If the event is damaging, it causes +1d6 points of non-
lethal damage per steady level, to a maximum of 10d6. This
damage stacks with whatever damage the event would have
caused anyway. Opponents get Reflex saving throws (DC is
equal to 10 + steady level + steadys Cha bonus) to halve the
bonus damage. A good rule of thumb is that a damaging
mousetrap involves something heavy being falling on an
opponent...or something that involves fire.
If the event is disabling, the opponent must make a Fort
save (DC is equal to 10 + steady level + steadys Cha bonus)
or be stunned for one round. Even those who make their
saving throws get -4 to all actions and Defense for one
round.
When triggering an environmental hazard without the
use of the mousetrap ability, a steady gets +2 to any rolls that
might be needed and +2 damage to any damage done. For
example, if the party encounters trouble in the old brewery,
the entire party might attempt to roll large casks of beer onto
their opponents. In any rolls that might be involved, the
steady would get +2. He might even request that his rolling
beer casks might perform a mousetrap effect instead of
whatever the GM has deemed the normal effect will be.

Um, Guys? (Ex): When a steady takes this ability, he
becomes more helpful in conflict. Once per encounter, you
may grant an ally a 1d6 to their die roll as an immediate
action. This may be applied to any d20 die roll, provided that
die roll has not received any other outside bonuses. For
example, the steady could not modify a d20 roll that is
already receiving a +2 morale or tactical bonus; or also
benefiting from the techies monitor ability. The 1d6 can
only be added to a die roll before the results of the die roll are
announced.
Monster Bait (Ex): The steady using this ability generally
makes himself a nuisance, taunts an enemy, or generally
makes a fool of himself. Then, the fun begins. A single target
specified by the steady must make a Will save (DC is equal
to 10+ steady level + steadys Cha bonus). If the Will save is
failed, the target becomes infuriated for 1d6+1 rounds
attacking the steady as his preferred target above all others.
The opponent receives a -2 to Defense and saving throws
from being distracted.
If the steady moves out of sight or out of range, the
target is compelled to pursue the steady until he can be
attacked.
While the steady has his opponent infuriated, he receive
a +2 morale bonus to his Defense.
Is That the Best You Can Do? (Ex): While the steady has an
opponent who is infuriated at him, he gains an additional +2
morale bonus to Defense for a grand total of a +4 morale
bonus to his Defense.
Move It! (Ex): Once per encounter, the steady with this
ability may add +10 to his speed. Additionally, if he passes
by an adjacent space to an ally during any movement that he
might take, he may move that ally with him. The ally ends
this special movement adjacent to the steady.
Use Magical Device (Ex): A steady with this ability may
attempt to use this skill. He gains as many ranks in the Use
Magical Device skill as he has levels. The skill rank remains
as high as level without him needed to put any extra points
into it.

The Techie
You cant rush genius.

In the modern world, technology influences every aspect of our lives. Thus, the person with technology on their side often wields
tremendous influence. A cutting-edge adept in the realm of all things technological, the techie can come from almost anywhere.
Whether a self-made hacker, a former government operative, or a paranoid conspiracy nut, the techie is one of the most valuable
assets against Masque or the Horror.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +0 +0 +0 +2 +0 Eagle-eye ability, techie talent
2nd +1 +1 +0 +3 +0 Techie talent
3rd +2 +1 +1 +3 +1 Eagle-eye ability
4th +3 +1 +1 +4 +1 Techie talent
5th +3 +2 +1 +4 +1 Eagle-eye ability
6th +4 +2 +2 +5 +2 Techie talent
7th +5 +2 +2 +5 +2 Eagle-eye ability
8th +6/+1 +3 +2 +6 +2 Techie talent
9th +6/+1 +3 +3 +6 +3 Eagle-eye ability
10th +7/+2 +3 +3 +7 +3 Techie talent

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d6
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score + 5
Class Skills
Appraise, Bluff, Computers, Craft, Disable Device, Drive, Escape Artist, Knowledge (Current Events), choose any three
knowledge skills except for Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) or Knowledge (Occult), Linguistics, Medicine, Perception, Profession,
Sleight of Hand, Stealth
Skill Ranks per Level: 6+Int Modifier
Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A techie begins with
proficiency in light armor and pistols. He also begins the
game with melee proficiency in simple weapons.
Data Streaming: A techie may transform any Lore token
(Foresight, Gnosis, Clue, or Wariness ) into a Data token.
As with most characters, a techie may only have one Lore
token at a time.
Eagle-Eye Abilities:
Starting at first level and every other level after, the techie
may choose an Eagle-Eye ability. Eagle-Eye abilities require
that the techie have some way to monitor his teammates.
This can be achieved by giving every one who wishes to
benefit from Eagle-Eye a single piece of tech - like cameras
on every party members shoulders.
The Eagle-Eye abilities can also function if the techie can
monitor most of the area that the party occupies. For
example, a techie could grant Eagle-Eye abilities if he had
access to the security cameras in a building.
Finally, the techie must have some way of monitoring his
partys progress, whether through a computer, tablet, or
security van.
Monitor (Ex): Once per encounter, you may grant an ally a
1d6 to their die roll as an immediate action. This may be
applied to any d20 die roll, provided that die roll has not
received any other outside bonuses. For example, the techie
could not modify a d20 roll that is already receiving a +2
morale or tactical bonus. The 1d6 can only be added to a die
roll before the results of the die roll are announced.
Look Out (Ex): By spending a standard action, you may grant
an ally a +2 competence bonus to their Defense attribute.
They retain this bonus so long as you spend a swift action
each round to grant it to them. You can switch recipients of
this bonus, but it requires a standard action to do so.
This bonus rises to +3 at 6th level.
Interrupt (Ex): As an immediate action, you may grant an ally
the ability to interrupt the initiative, placing them in a new
order in the initiative. This ability may only be used once per
encounter.
Over There (Ex): On your initiative, you may grant an ally the
ability to take an extra move action. This extra movement is
an immediate action. This ability requires a swift action on
your part.
Triangulation (Ex): As long you know at least three facts
about a particular quarry (creature type, general
appearance, and/or one or more of its abilities or powers)
you may gain a Lore (Data) token about the particular
target.
You may spend a Data token to re-roll any failed saving
throw. You may give your Data token away to another
character through a minute or more of conversation,
revealing to the other character what you discovered about
your quarry. They may, in turn, use it to re-roll failed saving
throws or in use of one of their own class abilities.
Techie Talents:
Eye in the Sky (Ex): As long as your Eagle-Eye ability is
functional, you may also prevent one or more allies from
being surprised. Pass a DC 15 Computer test. For every 5
points that you pass your Computer test by, you can prevent
an additional ally from being surprised. Engaging this ability
takes a Standard action. You may count yourself as an ally.
Ectometer (Ex): As long as you know three facts about a
particular quarry, you may create a detection device. You
must pass a DC 15 Craft (Electronics) test. For every 5
points you pass your Craft (Electronics) test by, you may
make another detection device. Crafting such devices takes
an hour per device.
Each of these devices allows the wielder to detect
creatures of a certain type (undead, aberrations, humans,
etc). They come in the form of your choosing whether they
be goggles, meters, smartphone app or something else that
the GM allows. They grant a +4 tech bonus to Perception
tests to detect such creatures. This bonus rises to +8 at level
5 and +12 at level 10.
These devices last for 24 hours before they need to be
recalibrated by the techie who created them, which takes 10
minutes per device. Each device requires a DC 15 Craft
(Electronics) to calibrate. The DC rises by 5 after every
calibration, successful or not.
Supernatural Armor (Su): As long as you know three facts
about a particular quarry, you may equip yourself or an ally
with equipment which protects particularly against the
quarry. For example, you might weave wolfsbane into small,
internal pouches in a protective suit, or put iron filings into
the seams of a jacket. You must pass a DC 20 Craft (Armor)
test and spend an hour creating the protection. If you
succeed, you make a suit of supernatural armor which
provides DR 2/- against your quarry an all other creatures of
its type. Thus, if your quarry is a vampire, your armor would
provide protection against all vampires. For every 5 points
you pass your Craft (Armor) test by, you may increase the
DR your armor provides by 1 to a maximum DR 5/-. This
protection does not stack with other forms of DR, such as
the Troopers natural DR.
The protection you provide lasts 24 hours without
change. Thereafter, the armor loses its properties and must
be re-crafted.
The quarry must be a supernatural creature. This ability
simply does not work against mundane humans.
Explosive Device (Ex): You may take an hour to construct an
explosive device which does 1d6 points of damage per class
level (maximum 10d6). The device detonates in a controlled
fashion, damaging anything in its same 5-foot space. This
device can be set up to go off via a timer, remote detonation,
or upon impact.
Maintaining such a volatile device is delicate and a
serious drain on resources. Thus, you can only have one
such device at a time at first. You may have two such devices
at 5th level. Also, at 5th level, you may elect your device(s) to
detonate with a wider radius - up to 30 if so desired.
Bane Weapon (Ex): As long as you know three facts about a
particular quarry, you can craft a temporary bane weapon for
that particular quarry (+2 to hit, doing an extra 2d6 points of
damage). This may be done once per game session. This
special weapon retains its bane quality through three
successful hits. Thereafter, it returns to normal. If giving this
quality to ammunition, you can give it to three rounds of
ammo of any type.
Techies who use this ability will often use some kind of
mystic-tech to get their special weapons to work. For
example, they might make silver bullets or rounds that shine
with ultraviolet light. When making a melee weapon, it
might be coated with a special substance or emit a particular
kind of energy.
Hacking (Ex): By taking this talent, a techie is able to
perform cinematic functions on a computer, rather than
what is normally possible (see sidebar). If the GM is not
allowing cinematic functions, then instead this talent allows
a techie to perform computer functions in half of the time
that it would take a normal character.

The Trooper
Everyone. Get behind me.

Whether it be a cop, soldier, or just a lone hillbilly with a shotgun, the trooper is the front line fighter in the war against the
Eternal Night. He is not just a combatant, but someone who has dedicated their entire being into becoming a weapon against evil.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +1 +1 +2 +2 +0 Bonus feat, know thy enemy
2nd +2 +2 +3 +3 +0 Bonus feat, jaded+1
3rd +3 +2 +3 +3 +1 Damage reduction 2
4th +4 +3 +4 +4 +1 Bonus feat, Vital Shot
5th +5 +3 +4 +4 +1 Weapon Training 1
6th +6/+1 +3 +5 +5 +2 Bonus feat, jaded +2
7th +7/+2 +4 +5 +5 +2 Damage reduction 3
8th +8/+3 +4 +6 +6 +2 Bonus feat, Deadly Shot
9th +9/+4 +5 +6 +6 +3 Weapon Training 2
10th +10/+5 +5 +7 +7 +3 Bonus feat, jaded +3

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d10
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score + 5
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score

Class Skills
Acrobatics, Climb, Craft, Disable Device, Drive, Intimidate, Knowledge (Current Events), Knowledge (Law), Medicine,
Perception, Pilot, Stealth, Survival, Swim
Skill Ranks per Level: 4+Int Modifier

Class Features Damage Reduction (Ex): Troopers are tough. They

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A trooper is proficient
with all simple and martial melee weapons, all armor (heavy,
light, and medium), and all firearms (pistols, rifles,
automatic weapons).
Know Thy Enemy: A trooper may transform any Lore
token (Foresight, Data, Gnosis, Clue, or Wariness) into a
free d20 re-roll. As with most characters, a trooper may only
have one Lore token at a time.
mentally prepare themselves for the inevitable moments in
which their lives will be in danger and their bodies
wounded. At 3rd level they gain DR 2/-. Every four levels
thereafter, a trooper gains an additional point of DR / -
Vital Shot (Ex): When the trooper makes a single attack as
a standard action, he may choose to make his attack a Vital
Shot, which does an additional die of damage on any damage
roll involving firearms. Thus, a large arms pistol would do
2d8+4 damage.

Bonus Feats: Starting at 1st level and every even level
thereafter, a trooper gains a bonus feat in addition to those
granted from normal level advancement. These bonus feats
must be selected from those listed as combat feats.
Upon reaching 4th level and every four levels
thereafter, a trooper can choose to learn a new bonus feat in
place of a bonus feat had has already learned. In effect, he
loses the bonus feat in exchange for a new one. The old feat
cannot be a prerequisite for another feat, advanced class, or
other ability. A trooper cannot save the switch for later. He
must choose to do so upon reaching every 4th level.
Jaded: A trooper is a person who has been the ugly side of
the world and has experienced human evil first hand.
Starting at 2nd level, a trooper gains a +1 bonus on Willl
saves when making Horror checks, due to their worldliness.
Deadly Shot (Ex): Now, when the trooper makes a shot
with a firearm, an extra die of damage is added, even when
he takes multiple shots in a round. The trooper only gains
this bonus when he uses two hands to steady a single
weapon.
Weapon Training (Ex): Starting at 5th level, a trooper can
selects a specific weapon group. Whenever he attacks with a
weapon of that type he gains a +2 to hit and damage. Every
four levels thereafter, a trooper selects another weapon
group, gaining +2 to hit and damage with that weapon. In
addition, he gains an additional +1 to hit and damage with all
previous trained weapons. For example, when a trooper
reaches 9th level, he will have a +3 to hit and damage in one
weapon group and +2 to hit and damage with another

The Wyrd
Wait. I sense something...

The psychic. The medium. The poltergeist anchor. There have always been people on Gothic Earth who have lived perpendicular
to the laws of nature. Many of these tortured souls bear both the blessing and curse of powers or strange perceptions. Some,
however, are merely anchors of the weird and inexplicable. They may have no powers of their own, but merely be the locus of
holes in both time and space.

Base
Attack Defense Fort Ref Will
Level Bonus Bonus Save Save Save Special
1st +0 +0 +0 +0 +2 Angles of Time 1, wyrd talent
2nd +1 +1 +0 +0 +3 Wyrd talent
3rd +2 +1 +1 +1 +3 Angles of Time 2
4th +3 +1 +1 +1 +4 Wyrd talent
 5th +3 +2 +1 +1 +4 Angles of Time 3
6th +4 +2 +2 +2 +5 Wyrdy talent
7th +5 +2 +2 +2 +5 Angles of Time 4
8th +6/+1 +3 +2 +2 +6 Wyrd talent
9th +6/+1 +3 +3 +3 +6 Angles of Time 5
10th +7/+2 +3 +3 +3 +7 Wyrd talent

Alignment: Any
Hit Die: d6
Starting Threshold: Wisdom score + 5
Starting Sanity: Intelligence score

Class Skills
Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Knowledge (Current Events), Knowledge (Forbidden Lore), Knowledge (Occult), Knowledge
(Profession), Linguistics, Perception, Sense Motive, Slight of Hand, Survival
Skill Ranks per Level: 4 + Int Modifier

Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The wyrd begins with no
proficiencies in armor or weapons of any kind.
Triggered Prophecy: A wyrd may always transform a Lore
token (Data, Clue, Gnosis, or Wariness ) into a Foresight
token. As with most characters, a wyrd may only have one
Lore token at a time.
Angles of Time (Su): Perhaps the most curious and potent
ability of the wyrd is her strange relationship with time.
Some wyrds seem to be able to predict the future through a
kind of occult cognition. Others can feel themselves slip in
and out of time itself. Whatever the reason or source of their
power, most wyrds can foresee future events. They perceive
these things as possibilities and vergences in the timestream.
At 1st level, a wyrd receives a +1 foresight bonus to
initiative checks. This represents their ability to prepare
themselves and anticipate what people are going to do next.
At 3rd level, once a day, a wyrd can spend a Foresight
token to re-roll any d20 roll they make, even after the GM
explains what the results of the roll will be. The results of
the second roll are final.
At 5th level, the wyrds visions of future events give her a
+2 foresight bonus to her initiative checks.
At 7th level, the wyrd can make predictions about events
that lie in her future. Once per game session, she may tax
herself (see below) to gain a Lore (Foresight) token. She can
spend the Foresight token to ask a yes or no question
pertaining to future events. The question may not have
anything to do with people or creatures. For example, she
could not ask: Will Ethan try kill Sarah? or Are there
vampires in town? A wyrd might instead ask: Will there be
another attempted murder tonight? or Is there going to be
the a vampiric feeding within the hour? The answer to the
question may come in the form of a vision or feeling, but it is
always definitive.
The wyrd may instead give this Foresight token to
another character, by speaking to them about her visions
and strange emotions she experiences from the future. A
character other than the wyrd can spend a Foresight token
to force a successful attack rolled upon him to be re-rolled.
The second roll, no matter the result, stands.
At 9th level, the wyrds relationship with time becomes
such that she can actually pull upon its strings. She can add
1d6 to a d20 roll that she makes once a day. These dice may
be added even after the GM explains what the result of the
roll will be.
Wyrd Talents: A wyrd may enact a number of strange and
mysterious talents. She may not have the biggest variety of
supernatural powers, but unlike a wielder of magics, she can
use many of her powers repeatedly, though sometimes at a
cost. The nature of these powers varies. They might come
from the power of her own will or from a ghostly spirit
companion. The exact source and nature of a wyrd varies
wildly.
Sometimes, a wyrd talent can be strengthened through
some extra mental effort. When wyrd taxes herself, the talent
may have an additional or increased effect. This causes 1
point of Constitution damage. If a wyrd greatly taxes herself,
she takes 2 points of Constitution damage. These points
come back at the rate of 1 point per hour of resting.
Whenever a wyrd taxes herself, there is some physical sign.
Most wyrds will start having furious nosebleeds. Others will
actually cry tears of blood. Still others have their skin turn
grey. The exact physical effects are varied.
 When a saving throw is called for against a wyrd talent,
the DC is always equal to 10 + the wyrds level + the
wyrds Wisdom bonus.
When taking talents, a wyrd must take the lesser version
of the talent before taking the greater version of it.
Firestarter - Lesser (Su): The wyrd can manipulate the latent
energies in the air, causing unattended objects to
spontaneously combust. Anyone in the same 5-foot space as
the ignition takes 2d4 + plus the wyrds class level + her Wis
bonus in damage. Victims may make a Reflex save for half
damage. Invoking this power is a standard action and may
normally be only used once per encounter. A wyrd may tax
herself to invoke it additional times in a single encounter.
Firestarter - Greater (Su): The wyrd can now cause greater
conflagrations. The conflagration can occupy up to four 5-
foot spaces, arranged in any pattern, except that they must
be adjacent to one another. Each creature or object in these
spaces takes 2d6 damage plus the wyrds class level + her
Wis bonus in damage. Victims may make a Reflex save for
half damage. Invoking this power is a standard action and
may normally be only used once per encounter. A wyrd may
tax herself to invoke it additional times in a single encounter.
Telekinesis - Lesser (Su): The wyrd with this ability can
manipulate objects up to 30 feet away with the power of
their mind. They may tax themselves to extend the range to
300 feet for one round.
The telekinetic strength with which they may manipulate
objects is equal to their Wisdom score, at a speed of 30 feet
per round. Manipulating objects or causing them to attack
takes a standard action. However, the wyrd can maintain
this ability, and have an already manipulated object float in
place as a swift action.
At this point in their progression, wyrds have limited
manipulative capacity. Basically, they can do anything that a
person might be able to do while wearing a pair of mittens.
For example, typing on a keyboard or pulling the trigger on
a gun would be impossible. The wyrd cannot affect animate
creatures. Nor can they affect objects possessed or worn by
a creature.
A telekinetic who wishes to attack with an object makes
a ranged attack and inflicts 1d6 damage, plus any modifiers
due to her telekinetic strength.
Telekinesis - Greater (Su): The wyrd with this ability can
manipulate objects up to 90 feet away. She may tax herself
to extend the range to 900 feet for one round. The relative
strength with which they may do this is equal to their
Wisdom score +4 at a speed of 60 feet per round. At this
level of ability, wyrds can manipulate objects or people with
the same level of manipulation as a pair of human hands.
Thus, she might type on a keyboard or pull the trigger on a
gun.
A telekinetic who wishes to attack with an object makes
an attack modified by her Wisdom and inflicts 1d8 damage,
plus any modifiers due to her telekinetic strength. Again,
manipulating objects or causing them to attack takes a
standard action. However, the wyrd can maintain this
ability, and have an already manipulated object float in place
as a swift action.
By taxing herself, a wyrd may attempt to wrest control
of an attended object from its owner. She does this by
performing a disarm or sunder combat maneuver.
Obviously, she may do this at range and therefore does not
suffer attacks of opportunity for it.
A psychic may also tax herself to use manipulated objects
to grapple, trip, or bull rush an opponent. These require
some object manipulated by the psychic that is appropriate
for the maneuver. Telekinetic combat maneuvers always
require at least standard action, and only one telekinetic
combat maneuver can be performed in a single round.
Maintaining a telekinetic grapple continues to tax a wyrd
each round she does it.
Mind Delving - Lesser (Su): At this level of mind delving, the
wyrd gains the ability to pick up trace emotions from others.
She can now sense when other thinking creatures are
nearby. She receives a +4 foresight bonus on all Sense
Motive checks and gains a +4 foresight bonus to Perception
checks involving creatures who have both an Intelligence
score and can feel emotions (zombies and skeletons cannot).
She receives these bonuses at all times.
She may also, as a swift action, deliver a one sentence
message to anyone within sight. Anyone who is not her
friend receives a Will save against this power.
Mind Delving - Greater (Su): By taxing herself, the wyrd can
do more than just pick up trace emotions. She is able to
discern what particular emotion or emotions someone is
feeling at any given moment. It takes a move action to
invoke this power. The subject does receive a Will saving
throw. Those who succeed at the save are immune to this
power for 24 hours but do not necessarily know that
anything was done to them.
Finally, a wyrd can attempt to stretch her senses to sense
thinking and feeling beings. By taxing herself and spending
a move action, she can negate the benefits concealment and
cover of one thinking, feeling creature for one round so long
as they are within 90 feet. Alternatively, she may greatly tax
herself to negates multiple creatures benefits for
concealment and cover within 900 feet for one round.
Warp Energy - Lesser (Su): As a standard action, a wyrd may
scramble any technological device up to Large size within 30
feet. This means anything that requires electricity or a
battery for operation such as cell phones, computers, a cars
computer system, or even a large power transformer.
Affected devices do not function for one hour at which time
they return to normal.
Alternatively, a wyrd may shut down the power to a
single room in a house or a portion of a larger room, such as
the corner of a warehouse. This power loss persists for an
hour.
 If the wyrd taxes herself, she may use this power on a
living being. The target must pass a Fort save or become
stunned for 1d2 rounds.
A wyrd may also tax herself to increase the range to 300
feet.
Warp Energy - Greater (Su): The wyrds ability now lets her
permanently destroy small to medium technological devices
(see examples above). These devices are so adversely
affected as to be beyond repair. Chips are fried. Magnetic
data is stirred into a mess. Batteries leak. Any data on these
devices is lost when this ability is used on them. Again, doing
so costs a standard action.
A wyrd may tax herself to scramble multiple
technological devices, up to her Wisdom score in number.
These devices return to normal function after one hour.
Alternatively, a wyrd may tax herself to shut down the
power to a very large building or a small city block. Power
returns in an hour.
The wyrd can now target multiple living beings with this
power - all those within a 20 foot radius. Each being
targeted by this power must make a Fort save or become
stunned for 1 round. Doing this still requires her to tax
herself.
Alternatively, the wyrd can greatly tax herself to focus
her mighty power on a single living being. The target must
make a Fort save or go into epileptic seizures. The target
falls prone and his helpless for 1 round and then stunned for
1 round.
A wyrd can also tax herself to increase the range of this
power to 300 feet as normal, or greatly tax herself to affect
large objects or small buildings from 900 feet away.
Strangers - Lesser (Su): A wyrd with this power has a strange
relationship with time, dimensions, and alternate realties.
Once per game session, as a free action, the wyrds player
can summon a Stranger. These strangers appear to be
humans but are odd in some way. Perhaps they are bald men
in suits, or creepy little children. They appear anywhere in
the wyrds line of sight and act on her initiative.
These strangers assist in a task for 1 round and then
disappear. They can automatically aid another in a combat
or a skill check. If aiding in a skill check, they might
physically aid or utter something cryptic in the case of
something like a Knowledge check. At the GMs discretion,
their aiding bonus might be much higher - such as if a
Stranger appears from nowhere to aid in an intimidate
check. Strangers can provide flanking bonuses, distract
people, provide cover or even perform a physical task, like
turning off the power to something or catching a falling
person. They cannot perform anything that would require a
skill check. Therefore, a Stranger could not, for example,
pick someones pocket for his wyrd.
The Strangers cannot attack and all forms of attack on
them fail. They are immune to magic and succeed in all
saving throws.
Note that a wyrds player announces the summoning of a
Stranger, not the character. Thus, the wyrd herself may
have no control over when the Strangers appear or even
know why they appear.
Stranger - Greater (Su): As the wyrd falls deeper into the
angles of time, the Strangers who surround her may assist
her even more. Now, when they appear, they linger for 2
rounds, instead of just one.
When Strangers appear, they can now participate in
combat. Their attack bonus is equal to the wyrds level, plus
her Charisma bonus. The Strangers do 2d6 + the wyrds
Wisdom bonus in damage. Their attacks are always
considered melee attacks, though the trappings of the attack
can be nearly anything. Perhaps they sprout tentacles or fire
beams of light from their eyes. No additional effects can be
gleaned from the trappings of an attack. For example, a
Stranger cannot set a person alight with burning beams from
their eyes.
As before, Strangers are immune to all forms of attack,
magic and succeed in all saving throws. It still only costs a
free action to summon them.
Poltergeist - Lesser (Su): A mysterious force surrounds the
wyrd. This force might be a spirit or it may simply be a
psychic manifestation of her inner emotions. From time to
time, strange things happen around the wyrd. Objects might
fall off shelves. Lights may flicker at her approach.
Once per encounter, the wyrds player may announce a
poltergeist attack on someone within 60 feet. The poltergeist
acts on its own initiative, which is a straight d20 roll. The
arrival of the poltergeist often causes some kind of mental or
physical pain for the wyrd, meaning they lose a standard
action once the poltergeist arrives.
Once the poltergeist arrives, objects fly from all over,
pelting the target; or invisible hands grab and scrape at him.
The victim receives a Reflex save. Failure means they can
only take a single swift action. Additionally, they provoke
attacks of opportunity from those around them. The wyrds
player may tax her character to cause the poltergeist to
linger for 1 more round, attacking another or the same
target.
Alternatively, the poltergeist may used to provide a
bonus to an intimidate check (GMs discretion with +2 to +6
recommended) or even provoke a Horror check.
Note that a wyrds player announces the appearance of
the poltergeist, not the character. Thus, the wyrd herself
may have no control over when it appears.
Poltergeist - Greater (Su): The force around the wyrd now
becomes frightening and powerful. When it arrives, (it is still
limited to appearing once an encounter) the poltergeist may
attack everything and everyone within 30 feet of the wyrd.
When it manifests in this way, it still acts on its own
initiative, a straight d20 roll. Everything and everyone in
range takes 1d6 points of damage per level of the wyrd, to a
maximum of 10d6. Those within the radius of attack may
make a Reflex save for damage.
 The wyrds player may tax her character to cause the
poltergeist to appear with a lesser effect and greater effect,
New Skills
Computers (Intelligence): This skill covers the use of computers in the Gothic Earth Eternal setting. It covers both use of
software, programming and basic setup of computers, such as putting a computer network together. A character does not need the
computer skill to use a computer for basic functions like basic internet research or word processing.
Drive (Dexterity): This skill covers the ability to drive a
car or other automobiles. It is assumed that most modern
characters can drive a car of some kind. The drive skill
represents exceptional ability with automotives.
Finance (Wisdom): The Finance skill represents how
well your character manages his money on a daily and
long-term basis. Whenever your character makes a big
purchase, he makes a Finance test. Failure means that he
cant buy the item that he was hoping to buy. This skill
also determines how well a character can increase either
savings. Characters with a high Finance skill are able to
make large purchases on a regular basis, while those will
poor Finanace skills are often strapped for cash.
Knowledge - Current Events (Intelligence): This
knowledge skill covers the current events of the day. It is
used when trying to remember the names of particular
public figures, recalling who is probably in charge of
what, and what particular cities or regions are known
for.
Knowledge - Forbidden Lore (Intelligence): This
knowledge covers all things dire and supernatural on
Gothic Earth. Information about monsters, their
behaviors, and mystical events are all covered under this
skill.
Knowledge - Law (Intelligence): This knowledge covers
the laws of the home country the character hails from. It
may also help a character navigate the governmental
bureaucracy of that country as well.
Knowledge - Naturalist (Intelligence): This skill covers
a characters knowledge of the natural world, and how it
functions. It also allows a character to determine if
something has happened that is counter to the natural
cycle.
Knowledge - Occult (Intelligence): While Forbidden
Lore covers the supernatural on Gothic Earth, this skill
covers knowledge about the specific practice of magic on
Gothic Earth. It covers magical traditions and magical
culture as well.
but not two lesser or two greater effects.
The wyrd is always immune to this damage.
What can computers Do?
When this skill is introduced into a campaign, it is
important for the GM to determine exactly what this
skill can or cannot do. Does the game master want the
computer technician skill to be fairly realistic in
its scope, or fairly cinematic? The lists below include
some of the things actually possible with computer
technology and some of the things that are only
possible in stories or movies. It is suggested that
campaigns include a bit of the cinematic. After all, if
characters are going to be doing things like jumping
out of windows and firing guns while running and
diving, why not add a touch of the dramatic to
computers as well?
Realistic things you can do with a computer:
Hack into and monitor someones email account
Hack into and modify someones bank account
Steal someones identity
Create a fake credit card
Disable a computer network
Track the source of a phone call
Track someones cell phone position on a map
Make it difficult for someone to track your
phone call
Track the source of an email
Make it difficult for someone to track your
email
Cinematic things done with a computer:
Shut off the power to a building or power grid
in a portion of a city
Bypass security systems in a distant building
while you sit in a remote location
Alter someones criminal record
Enhance a photograph far beyond its original
state (make a blurry picture sharp, zoom in and
read the paper that someones holding in their
hand)
Hack into traffic cameras in order to track
the position of a car or read someones license
plate
Cause a traffic jam by altering the stop light
schedules all across the city
Knowledge - Psychology (Intelligence): While Sense Motive is used to discern whether or not someone is lying, this skill allows
a deeper understanding of someones motives. Through this skill, you might be able to figure out why someone is doing something.
It might also be used to discern if someone is actually acting like a normal human being or not.

Knowledge - Religion (Intelligence): This skill covers not just one, but all world religions. This includes more obscure traditions
like Voodoo, Santeria, or spiritualism.

Knowledge - Science (Intelligence): This skill covers a general knowledge of the sciences from chemistry, to physics, to biology.
This skill is somewhat cinematic since it covers such a broad range of skills. If you wish, you can parse out this skill into smaller
skill sub-sections.

Medicine (Intelligence): This skill takes the place of the Heal skill on Gothic Earth. It covers first aid as well as more advanced
procedures. A character with a low skill in Medicine probably knows first aid and perhaps the concepts behind more advanced
treatment. A character with a high skill ranking in Medicine probably has had advanced medical training of some kind.
A character who wishes to apply first aid to his allies must spend at least five minutes doing so. A successful DC 15 skill check
allows the character to heal his ally 1 hit point for every character level they possess. Medical characters with great skill can heal
their allies further. They can heal 1 hit point for every point above DC 20 that they make on their skill roll.
A character can only receive first aid once per every 24 hour period.
A character who falls to below 0 hit points is in critical condition. They may heal on their own, but cannot receive first aid until
they receive some form of long-term care, such as the type provided by a hospital; or they are able to heal up to their full hit
points, whichever comes first. A healer who wishes to use their Medicine skill to provide long-term care can do so, but requires a
medical facility of some kind. Then, he must make a Medicine skill check with a DC equal to 15 + character level of patient.
The length of time of long-term care varies with the types of injuries, but usually requires at least1d4 days.

Pilot (Dexterity): This skill covers the ability to pilot a flying craft.

Research (Intelligence): This skill covers the ability of a character to uncover information. It requires the use of services or
facilities, such as the Internet or library. Furthermore, research takes time - at least an hour. As a rule of thumb, a typical DC 10
Research check requires an hour of work. For every 5 DC points higher than 10, an additional hour is required. For example, a
DC 20 Research check would require a three hours of work. More intense research projects might have their time of research
measured in days instead of hours. Some projects might be measured in months. The time needed is determined by the GM.

Optional rule: Storytelling research

Many game systems allow some player control over successful Research checks. In these games, a
successful Research roll results in the ability of the player to determine something in the story. For
example, a successful Research roll in a game might allow a PC to announce that the creature the party
is tracking loves to feed on blood. The GM may not have had that in his plans, but goes with the PCs
announcement. Alternatively, a locale might be determined in the story. For example, after a successful
Research roll, a PC might determine that something interesting is happening in the old, abandoned
factory.
If this technique is adopted for in Gothic Earth Eternal, there are some suggested guidelines:

Limited Use: One possibility is to allow only one or two such Research rolls should be possible
per game session, to prevent PCs from haphazardly determining elements of the story.
Token Rule: Another possibility is to allow a Storytelling Research roll only if the PC in
question has spent a Clue or Gnosis token. This makes certain characters more powerful in the
campaign, mind you. For a more balanced approach, you may allow any character with a
Foreknowledge token to make a Storytelling Research roll. If the token rule is invoked, the GM
should tell the PCs the DCs for the Research rolls ahead of time, since PCs will be spending
valuable Foreknowledge tokens to even attempt to make a Storytelling Research roll.
Hero Point Rule: Alternatively, a Storytelling Research roll might only be possible if a Hero
Point is spent. The Hero Point may be spent after a normal Research roll is made to turn it into a
Storytelling Research roll.
Limited Application: One other possibility is that PC can announce an attempt to make a
Storytelling Research roll, but the GM can rule that the roll can only be used to determine
certain aspects of the story. For example, a PC may announce that he is about to make a
Storytelling Research roll, but the GM rules that it may only be made to determine a locale, or a
specific behavior that can be attributed to the creature the party is hunting.
Combination: Any or all of these guidelines may be adopted, of course, in any combination.
 If the Research check fails, the next time the same subject is researched, it takes half the time. After all, all of the work a
character did in the initial query doesnt disappear.
When researching a topic, the player character states a particular subject of study, such as zombies, witches, or the use of
blood magic through history. Then, the GM is encouraged to provide information based upon how high the Research check is
made. If the GM rules that no information can be found (it simply may not be available - like the secrets of the CIA), then the GM
should suggest other avenues of research, providing more avenues according to how high the Research roll was. For example, a
researcher may not be able to find out about the CIAs darkest secrets, but he may able to find out the names of old CIA
operatives who later became authors and where to find them. The higher the Research roll, the more contacts can be found. Or he
may able to find out about specific old CIA cases that were declassified. The more higher the Research roll, the more cases are
found.

New feats
Two-Weapon Fighting - Pistols may be used as weapons with the two-weapon fighting feat and are counted as light weapons. All
other weapons are counted as large-sized weapons.

Human Weapon
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Attack
Your unarmed attacks do increased damage, according to level.
Level Damage
1-3 1d6
4-7 1d8
8-10 1d10

Sleep with One Eye Open

Prerequisites: None
You do suffer no penalties for Perception checks while you are asleep.

Silent Spell & Still Spell

In Gothic Earth Eternal, a wyrd who picks up these Feats can use her powers without making verbal sounds or motions.
Normally, when using psychic abilities, a wyrd makes some degree of sound as it take a great deal of concentration. It might be
sucking in air, grunting, singing, or even screaming. The Silent Spell feat negates this. To affect their environment, most wyrds
also demonstrably raise their arms and outstretch their hands, making them easy to spot if one knows what to look for. The Still
Spell feat allows a wyrd to forgo this sort of body language.

Wealth
Your lifestyle choice determines about how much available cash your character has on hand per day. This is an abstraction, of
course, because your character can always withdraw more money or may have reserves. If your character exceeds the amount he
or she spends in available cash, she then must dip into her savings, which are recorded on your character sheet. The term
savings here is also relative. It is assumed that your character has more access to cash than what is listed. Character savings
values represent how much of a financial cushion they have for themselves. Characters may spend beyond their savings. How
much they can spend beyond this is a function of how well they balance their finances (see the Finance skill). These other funds
are covered under big purchases, below.

Normally, you cannot bank your available cash for the day for bigger daily purchases. Its assumed that unspent available cash
goes to things like food, rent, mortgage, clothing, or other day-to-day living expenses.

Big Purchases
A character can actually reach beyond their savings. For example, they might cash in a life insurance policy, trust fund, or just run
up their credit card. At this point, the character must then make a Finances check against a DC set by the GM. This is known as a
big purchase. The DC for a big purchase should be determined by weighing the amount of money the character can access against
the price of the purchase. Buying a car, or even a fleet cars shouldnt be a problem for a billionaire, but should be a problem for a
college professor. There is no need to write down exact amounts when a big purchase is made. It simply needs to be agreed upon
and understood.
Any big purchase, however, brings a Twist. You cant keep charging your credit card or dipping into your funds without
repercussions.

Increasing Your Savings

Once characters have dipped into their savings, their savings do not replenish. They must find or earn money to put back into
their savings. The no banking rule of available cash still applies. Any extra cash characters pick up may be put back into savings.
Characters who wish to increase their savings must first earn enough cash to do so. Then, they make a Finances check with the
DC equal 5 + 1 for every 100 dollars the character wishes to increase their savings. Failure means that the character puts the
money away, but it ends up getting spent somehow. Success means that the character increased his savings by the amount desired.
Characters can only attempt to increase their savings every game session. Any extra money they have is simply lost.

Poor Cheap Medium High Pricey Expensive

Available Cash $10 Available Cash $50 Available Cash $100 Available Cash $500 Available Cash Available Cash $5,000
$1,000
Unhealthy living Motel room Hotel room Weeks stay in a Months rent in a Fantastic lodgings
space Cheap melee weapon Decent melee condo very nice apartment Explosives
Unhealthy meal Decent meal weapon Handgun High-quality Low-end body armor
Luxurious meal Smart phone handgun High-end computer
Rifle Assault weapon
Medium-grade
computer

armS and armor

Firearms are the primary weapon of the heroes of Gothic Earth. Melee and archaic weapons exist and can be found in the
Pathfinder Core book. Just like the base ruleset, archaic weapons can be divided into simple, martial, and exotic weapons. When
making an attack with a weapon in which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty.

Firearms proficiencies are divided into the pistols, rifles, and automatic categories. Characters who do not start with proficiencies
in these weapons make take a feat that provides them proficiencies in all pistols, rifles, automatics, or a single exotic firearm.

All firearms do x2 critical damage.

All high-quality firearms add 1 to their threat range. For example, a high-quality small rifle would have a threat range of
18-20.

Light, medium, and heavy armor exists on Gothic Earth as well. It function just like armor in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook,
except that it provides a combination of both bonuses on Defense and damage reduction (DR). The damage reduction from armor
does not stake with the damage reduction provided by classes, such as the trooper.

Quick Weapon Summary Damage Threat Range Inc. Example Type

Small Arms Pistol 1d6+3 20 30 ft. Beretta 9 mm Pistol
Large Arms Pistol 1d8+4 20 40 ft. Colt M1911 Pistol
Small Rifle 1d8+4 19-20 70 ft. Ruger .22 LR Rifle
Large Rifle 1d10+5 19-20 90 ft. 30-06 Rifle
Sub-Machine Gun 1d6+3 20 40 ft. Uzi Automatic
Assault Rifle 1d8+4 19-20 80 ft. M-16 Automatic
Shotgun 2d6+3 20 30 ft. Mossberg Rifle
Sniper Rifle 2d8+4 19-20 90 ft. M40 Exotic
Anti-Materiel 2d10+5 19-20 120 ft. Steyr HS .50 Exotic

Armor Bonuses Max Dex Bonus Armor Check Pen

Light armor (personal bullet-proof vest) +2 Def, +1 DR +4 -1
Medium armor (flak vest) +3 Def, +2 DR +2 -2
Heavy armor (swat gear) +4 Def, +3 DR +1 -6

Fire modes
Automatic weapons have three different fire modes - single shot (which is listed above), burst fire, and auto fire (which are
detailed below).
 Burst Fire (three round burst): -2 to hit, extra die of damage
Auto Fire (10 rounds fired): extra die of damage; all targets within a 10 x 10 space take damage. However, all in the area
may save for half damage (DC 10 + BAB of attacker).
The Investigative roleplaying System
Chris: Well, we looked everywhere in the building.
Nick: We found a scrap of cloth and this old family photo.
Chris: Yeah, I still dont know what we need to do.
Game Master: Youre missing something really obvious here. The
clues are there.
Nick: Right. But its been over an hour of discussing this.
Game Master: Fine. Just make an intelligence check. If you make it,
Ill tell you where to go.
Mysteries and clues are important to the horror genre,
especially so in horror gaming. In a horror game, both
tension and terror can often rely on mysteries being set up
by the game master. This is done because keeping elements
of the games story hidden creates a sense of secrecy and
raises the stakes.
To this end, we use what we like to call the Investigative
Roleplaying system in order to help set up mysteries for
your game. The Investigative Roleplaying system is meant to
give a little bit more structure to a mystery in a role-playing
game as well as give the game master a few tools to move the
game along.
Nothing can be more frustrating in a mystery when the
player characters are unable to put two and two together,
leading them to the next part of the story. Here, the game
master faces a dilemma. Does he hand the player characters
the solutions to his mysteries, possibly leading the players on
by the nose? Or does he let the scene play out, possibly
frustrating them?
hunches
What the game master can do is offer a Hunch to the player
characters. A Hunch is a choice of actions, locations, or
individuals which may lead the party to the next part of the
story.
For example:
Chris: Well, we looked everywhere in the building.
Nick: We found a scrap of cloth and this old family photo.
Chris: Yeah, I still dont know what we need to do.
Game Master: Okay, lets speed this along a bit. Im going to offer
you a Hunch. But it will cost you a Twist, on top of any other
consequence you suffer from the Hunch. Do you want to take it?
Chris: Okay. Well take our medicine.
Game Master: The scrap of cloth might be a piece of fabric from the
old textile mill. Thats whats in the background of the old photo. So,
you could go to the old textile mill.
Nick: Oh, we should have known!
Game Master: Or the cloth might be something the killer has taken
as a trophy from his victim. There is dirt all over it. Fresh, well-
tended dirt. The kind of dirt that one uses to grow golf course grass
or
Chris: graveyard grass! The family graveyard. Which would be
where the photo comes in. Because its a family photo.
Game Master: Right. Finally, its a family photo. So simply going to
talk to the only living person in the photo would be good.
Nick: Her sister! Of course, we could talk to her.
In the above example, the game master has offered player
characters a choice to make. They can choose to go to one of
three locations, but only one of them is the correct choice.
Now, to raise the stakes, the game master has stated that the
Hunch comes as the cost of a Twist. Well get into that in
just a minute. The important thing to know is that the choice
of three locations is not just an empty choice. Otherwise, the
PCs could simply just visit all three locations, visiting each
site until they pick the right one. In this example, the choice
that lies before the PCs has a consequence.
If the PCs make the wrong choice, they may or may not
suffer a consequence. The game master can spell out the
consequence explicitly if he wishes. For example, he may
state that if the PCs pick the wrong location, the killer they
are looking for claims another victim. Or he may simply
explain that there will be consequences for making the
wrong choice, but keeps those details to himself for the
moment. Sometimes, there need not be any consequence. A
Hunch is simply needed to clear away possible player
misconceptions and move the game along.
Finally, if the choice of three or four options still results in
analysis paralysis from the players, the game master can put
a time limit on a Hunch. Five to ten minutes tends to be just
enough time for a group to make their decision.
TwiSts
A Twist is a necessary complication in the storyline that a
PCs suffers. Perhaps a hero speeds down the road after a
killer, only to have one of his car tires blow. Or a character
goes to reload his gun and realizes that he just spent his last
clip. Or perhaps one of the heroes of the game receives a
phone call, explaining that her husband has been kidnapped
by the villain of the story.
In the Investigative Roleplaying system, Twists are used as a
form of collective storytelling bargaining. When a PC gains
Twist, the game master gives that PC a token. Once the
Twist occurs the token his collected from the PC.
Now, initially, this sort of storytelling might seem somewhat
artificial. After all, as the ultimate arbitrator of the world, the
game master can always make fate strike. The game master
can always rule that a PCs husband gets kidnapped while
shes not there. Or that his car is on the fritz and finally
breaks down.
However, by giving a Twist token to a player, the GM has
announced that something bad will happen to his character. It
is no longer a matter of if but instead a matter of when. Also,
by placing a Twist token down in front of a player, its
shown that fate has singled that character out. Its a visual
reminder of a characters impending doom.
And heres the nasty part. A Twist token can always be
spent by a villain like a Hero Point. For example, lets say
that Chriss investigator character has two Twist tokens. As
he fights a werewolf, the creature can use those Twist tokens
against Chriss investigator, as if they were Hero Points. As
you can see, a Twist can be pretty powerful tool for the
game master to use. Details on Hero Points can be found on
p. 322 of the Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide.
Gaining Twists
Twist can be gained in order to get a Hunch. It may be
suggested by the game master or the players, but the game
master is the ultimate arbitrator of when a Twist is passed
out.
Alternatively, a Twist can be used a consequence in a
Hunch. For example, the GM might state that one of the
party members will have to take a Twist as a consequence if
the player characters make the wrong choice in their Hunch.
Of course, a Twist might be handed out for both receiving a
Hunch and picking the wrong choice after getting the
Hunch. Heroes should beware of getting in over their heads!
setbackS
An alternative to the Twist is a Setback. A Setback works
like a Twist, except that it is initiated and controlled by a
player, not the game master.
When a player elects to take on a Setback, he puts a token in
front himself at the gaming table. It should be
distinguishable from a Twist token (we prefer different color
poker chips).
Once a player takes on a Setback, it must be activated in the
next meaningful encounter. Activating a Setback does one of
two things.
The activating PC takes a -4 or -8 penalty to a to hit
roll, Defense for a round, or a meaningful skill
check. The GM determines how much of a penalty
(-4 or -8) is significant for that character.
Causes the PC to suffer a turn of back luck, not
unlike a Twist.
Remember that a setback can only be activated in a
meaningful encounter or for a meaningful roll. What makes
an encounter or roll meaningful? Thats easy. There must be
something at stake.
Lets say that the party enters an encounter in which they
talk to an NPC that they have known for a while. The NPC
is a strong ally and gets along with the party. In that
encounter, a PC cannot suddenly fire off a round or take a
penalty to Defense because there is nothing threatening her
life. In other words, nothing is at stake. A -4 penalty to a
skill check is also likely not appropriate because the party is
just talking with an NPC that is already friendly. Diplomacy
or Intimidate checks are not important.
Now, it may be that during the scene, the game master calls
upon a PC with a setback to make some other, important
skill check. Perhaps an important Knowledge check must be
made to figure out something in the story. At that time, the
PC may activate a setback, because in that moment,
something important is at hand. In other words, something is
at stake.
The player is encouraged to narrate the circumstances of the
penalty and why it has occurred. For example, Chris might
state that hes so obsessed with finding a werewolf that hes
not concerned with his own safety, incurring a -4 penalty to
his Defense for an entire round. Or that hes so distracted by
the kidnapping of his two children that he takes a -4 penalty
on an important Notice roll.
If a player does not activate her Setback in the next meaningful
encounter, with something at stake, the game master gets to
turn the Setback into a Twist, replacing the Setback token
with an appropriate Twist token. Thus, if the player simply
refuses to use his Setback or an appropriate moment to use it
never arises, control of the consequence falls back to the
GM.
Remember also that a Setback doesnt have to be a
numerical penalty to a roll or stat. It can simply be a stroke
of back luck. A player can decide for himself that while
chasing a killer in a car, that his own car tire blows, activating
the Setback. Or perhaps the player decides that his own
character has run out of bullets in a combat. The game
master always has final say in what constitutes a Setback
and what does not. One important rule of thumb in
activating a Setback is this a Setback should not affect
another character in the party. It should only affect the PC
activating it.
Gaining Setbacks
A player may offer to take a Setback instead of a Twist. As
you can see, a Setback isnt quite a bad as a Twist, and this
is on purpose. By making Setbacks not as punitive as a
Twist, players are encouraged to get more involved in the
storytelling process. They are encouraged to have bad things
happen to their characters, adding to the story. Also, by
having bad things happen to their own characters, players
are taking more ownership in the game, getting them more
involved in the storyline. Indeed, the game master can often
turn these player-generated problems and turn them into
plot hooks or side-stories.
horror in the eternal night
Horror is a dread realization of something terrible. It is not a fright or scare. It is not bogeymen jumping out of the shadows at
you. Instead, its the slow realization that bogeymen are real and that they are at your house, right now, crawling into bed with
your family.

For this reason, there is no reason to make horror checks when a hero on Gothic Earth see something run at them out of the
darkness. That said, if a character doesnt believe in the supernatural, and then suddenly confronts a zombie, this would be cause
of a horror check. Because, in this case, the character is coming to the realization that zombies are real.

A dead body isnt cause to make a horror check. While gruesome and haunting, a dead body is merely a harsh reality. A horror
check might be needed, however, if a body was ritualistically displayed. The horror comes not from the dead body itself, but the
realization that someone truly sick trussed up a human body in such a fashion.

How Horror Checks Work on Gothic Earth

In Gothic Earth Eternal, each character has a threshold rating. Characters threshold ratings represent their ability to withstand
horror and anxiety, whether it be a gruesome crime scene, or growing apprehension that something sits in the corner of the room,
watching. As characters experience horrific events, they take Horror damage. These points are deduced from their threshold
score, just as it might be deduced from a characters hit points.

Unlike hit points, character threshold ratings start high. The typical character starts with their Wisdom value or their Wisdom
value +5 in threshold at 1st level (see the class section for starting threshold values). Threshold ratings do increase, but only quite
slowly, only at the rate of 1 per character level. Also, when a character takes Horror damage, it cannot be healed through the use
of medicine or magic. Only time, characters own resolve, and counseling can heal the wounds of the mind. A character heals back
their Intelligence bonus in threshold per hour of rest (minimum of 1 per hour). A successful Diplomacy check (or good
roleplaying) can aid this process by doubling the threshold recovery rate.

When a character experiences something horrifying, they must make a horror save. This is expressed as a Will save, with a DC
and horror damage determined by the game master. A success on the horror check means that that a character loses a number of
threshold points equal to half the horror damage rolled. A failure means that a character loses a number of threshold points equal
to the damage roll.

The result of all of this is simple - even if you make all of your horror saves, your character will eventually succumb to dread. The
awful things that he or she is witness to eventually wears them down and digs at their soul.

A table of guidelines for horror saves is below.

Example Difficulty of Save

Significant - something jumping out, a dead body, combat or raving maniac No save necessary
Unsettling - a gruesome scene of death, discovering a horrible crime firsthand, life-or-death DC 15
combat
Shocking - a scene of lurid depravity, finding out that ones loved ones were the victims of a DC 20
horrific crime, being tortured, witnessing a terrible supernatural event.
Twisted - a scene that challenges ones view of the world, watching a loved one turn into a DC 25
monster, witnessing a supernatural event that changes ones life
Life-Altering - finding out that you are dead and have been for some time, finding out that your DC 30
loved ones are monsters and that you must kill them, catching a glimpse of the Red Death or the
Jade Horror

Horror Damage
Horror damage can range from just 1d6 to 5d6 (though many more d6 may be added for truly mind-shattering experiences).
Horror damage describes how personal the event is to the character. Hearing about something disturbing on the news, for
example, might be only cause 1d6 horror damage. However, an event which is deeply personal - like one's wife getting turning
into a vampire - would cause 5d6 damage (or even more, depending on the circumstances).

For example, a high horror save event with low damage might be something that would bother most people but is set far enough
away that it doesn't threaten them. For example, hearing in detail about a person who died while trying to claw their way out of a
grave might be something that calls for a high save DC, but low damage roll. However, if it is revealed that the deceased was
someone that your character knew - then the horror damage would increase.

Horror Benchmarks
As a character on Gothic Earth Eternal takes more and more horror damage, their threshold decreases, changing their character.
At first, horror actually benefits a character. The edge of adrenaline hones their senses and their mind. However, as a person is
pushed over the edge, they begin a downwards spiral into dread. At last, a soul can become overwhelmed by terror, becoming
catatonic or raving mad.

The benchmarks for character change are when a character first takes some horror damage, then when they are at 50% of their
threshold, then at 0 threshold, and finally at the negative value of their Wisdom score.

The baseline chart is below. If you want to keep horror checks simple, quick, and easy, we recommend using this chart only.

Status Threshold is.... Game Effects Psychological Effects Roleplaying

Frightened Missing some points, but still +1 to all skill The character has received a What does your character do
at over 50% checks thrill - a rush of adrenaline, when on edge or sensing
which actually hones the senses. danger?

Disturbed At 50% or less -1 to all rolls Something has gotten under How does your character
and Defense your characters skin. What cope the things they have
happened stick in the faced? If it wont get out of
characters mind and wont let your head what do you do?
go.

Panicked At zero or less -2 to all rolls Your character begins to Fight or flight. Choose the
and Defense unravel. She wants to either get way your character comes
away from the threat or run apart at the seams.
blindly at it, fighting.

Hysterical At negative Wisdom score Cannot function Your character either turns into At this point, you have
a catatonic ball or becomes an unfortunately lost your
NPC. character.

advanced horror rules

Fans of the original Ravenloft material will fondly remember rolling randomly to see how characters react to frightening events
around them. If you still want to keep this element of randomness in your game, its quite easy. Just roll 1d4 to determine which
style of horror a character is experiencing, match it to the benchmark of the characters threshold and you get the result.

Another method is to allow the players to choose their characters reaction to the horror event. Does someones investigator
become angry at the scene of a werewolf ripping apart an innocent victim? Does a scholar hide his fear and instead become more
and more detached from reality? To apply this method, simply allow players to choose which category best represents how their
character feels. Then, they take on the penalties listed. Below, we give some guidelines as how one might roleplay these different
conditions. Keep in mind, these are only guidelines. They should be seen mostly as springboards for players to get their own ideas
about how to roleplay their own characters sense of horror.

fear
A character who experiences mounting will try to avoid things that are disturbing. They may try to convince their companions to
turn back or may just immediately flee.

Fright: What is that? We need to be careful. Certain characters become more cautious when experiencing fright. They are
concerned for themselves for others, but are still masters over their own fear.
Disturbed: I dont like this. Not at all. We need to rethink this. When disturbed, characters experience impairment to their
judgment and temper. They are jumpy, quick to make bad decisions, and generally upset.
Panicked: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Characters experiencing this level of fear are on the verge of breakdown.
Unless compelled to linger, they flee as soon as possible.
Hysteria: Finally, characters engulfed in fear flee only want to hide in a corner. All reason has left.

anger
Characters who grow angry as they lose threshold becomes more volatile. As their terror increases, they began to lash out an
anything around them, even their friends. Their fighting ability actually decreases, because they are no longer using experience or
training they are simply wildly swinging or shooting at whatever moves.
 Fright: I cant believe this. Im going to get that thing. Whatever it is. At this point, characters experiencing anger are
channeling their fear into cold rage.
Disturbed: Oh, youre dead! You hear me? Come out here, you bastard! Characters at this level of anger have gone past the
point of useful rage. They are becoming reckless.
Panicked: YOU WANT SOME? COME ON! IM RIGHT HERE! COME AND GET ME! Characters experiencing this level
of anger have become a liability to themselves and others. Logic and reason are gone.
Hysteria: Characters who are consumed by their rage lose all control. If the object of their terror is not present, they
charge about wildly until they find it.

Detachment
A character who experiences detachment tries to rationalize the situation at hand. As the level of terror increases, they become
obsessed with trying to make sense of it all. The end result of trying to explain the unexplainable is a final break with reality.

Fright: Everybody be calm. Theres a logical explanation for this. When characters experience detachment, they first try to
reason with the people around them. They attempt to get as much information as they can and try to make sense of what
has just happened.
Disturbed: Okay. Okay. Its alright. Alright. I can handle this. Now, a detached characters rational shell begins to crack.
They are desperately trying to hold onto their sense of reason, but failing at every turn.
Panicked: N-no. This cant be. Whats happening? Whats happening? At this level of horror, a detached characters rational
world is coming down around them. At this point, making just a simple choice becomes a monumental task, because
nothing rational can be relied upon.
Hysteria: Characters in their final stage of detachment shut down and become catatonic. They may be led around at will.

Derangement
Characters who become deranged, lose it mentally when they experience horror. They begin to laugh at inappropriate times. They
might be screaming one minute, and then crying the next. As their terror increases, they become more and more unpredictable.

Fright: Oh wow. Wow. All right. Thats messed up. At first, characters experiencing derangement are highly agitated. They
continually dwell upon what has happened to them.
Disturbed: Did you see that? Did you see it? No. No! No. Cant be. Cant be! Soon, characters with derangement become
unhinged. They might start talking to themselves or become extremely distracted. The scene of horror was witnessed now
lives inside of his mind. They find it hard to think about anything else.
Panicked: Heh-heh. Yes. Its happening. ITS HAPPENING! Yes, yes. No. Oh no. Now, deranged characters become
dramatically different. They might laugh at inappropriate times, or suddenly start crying. Emotions dramatically change
for no reason at all, and quite often.
Hysteria: Characters at the bottom of derangement are completely insane, reacting to things in a random fashion.

Benchmark Fear Style Anger Style Detachment Style Derangement Style

Frightened +1 to all skill checks* +1 to attack rolls, -2 to +1 to all Intelligence-based +1 to all initiative
Defense* checks* checks*

Disturbed -1 to all rolls and Defense -2 to Defense and saving
throws
Panicked -2 to all rolls and Defense -4 to Defense and saving
throws as you disregard
your own safety.
Hysterical Cannot function Run after any threat,
attacking until its dead or
you are
-4 to Perception, Sense
Motive, and Initiative
-8 to Perception, Sense
Motive, and Initiative; and
-4 to all Charisma-based
checks as you become
detached from reality.
Zombie-like, catatonic
Acts in a random fashion
-4 to all Intelligence
based checks
-8 to all Intelligence
based checks; -4 to all
Charisma based checks
as reality become plastic
for you.

* These bonuses go away once a character reaches the disturbed benchmark.

sanity rules
The sanity rules for Gothic Earth Eternal are much like the rules for horror thresholds. Each character as a sanity rating which
takes sanity damage whenever a character experiences something that threatens their state of mind. Sanity damage should be
fairly rare...unless the game master has determined that insanity will be a core theme of his campaign.

Sanity, like threshold, starts high. All characters start with a sanity rating equal to their Intelligence score or Intelligence score + 5.
It ncreases as a character advances at the rate of 1 point per character level. Unlike threshold, however, sanity does not heal at the
same rate. A character regains their Charisma bonus in sanity points each month, instead of each hour. Just as with threshold,
counseling through roleplay or a Diplomacy check doubles the sanity healing rate. All of this being said, if the game master wishes
to make the loss of sanity one of the games central themes, then he or she may rule that sanity can never be healed, or only healed
slowly.

Just like threshold, as characters lose sanity, they pass different benchmarks which affect how they behave as well as their game
statistics. Unlike threshold, however, there is no upside to losing sanity. Losing ones sanity increasingly impairs people until
they are unable to act.

The Difference Between Insanity and Horror

Horror is a dread realization, a shock to the core of ones soul. Events that cause us horror wake us up to a darker, more sinister
world. Events that lead to insanity on the other hand usually have to do with changing a persons life. For example, being in a
terrible car accident can cause deep psychological scars. But we dont normally see such events as horror. Certainly, events that
are horrifying can also lead to insanity - there is overlap. This means that on Gothic Earth, there are things that can cause both
horror damage and sanity damage. It makes the job of the Gothic Hero difficult, but no one said that fighting the darkness would
be easy.

A table of guidelines for sanity saving throws is below.

Example Difficulty of Save

Disconcerting - Something that alters ones life - the loss of a job; finding out you cannot trust No save necessary
your closest friend.
Upsetting - Something that alters ones life permanently - the loss of a loved one; a single piece DC 15
of forbidden information; finding out monsters are real when you thought they were legends.
Unhinging - Something that completely and totally changes your life - being in a plane crash; DC 20
being constantly hunted by assassins, deeply reading a necromantic tome; finding out that you
are a lycanthrope. DC 25
Demented - Something that completely changes your life and questions your values - being in
front line combat for months on end, finding out that you have a taste for live flesh, or
discovering a love for necromancy.
Insane - An event that shatters your normal perceptions about the world, and makes you call DC 30
into question everything that you have ever valued. For example, discovering that you are
actually a wendigo and ate your wife and children. Or, discovering we are constantly
surrounded by ethereal beings that control our every decision. Or, speaking with the Red Death
or Jade Horror.

Types of Insanity
When taking sanity damage, the gamemaster and player should discuss what is causing the loss of sanity. Is it the sight of some
unknowable creature? Is it the mental stress of being hunted down by a clan of vampires? The cause for the sanity loss determines
the effect. For example, if a character is suffering from a personal loss, then the insanity effect that would best fit would be
depression.

Changing the Effects of Insanity

The effects of insanity can change as a character encounters different things as well. For example, a character might be suffering
from depression. Hes missing a few points of sanity, putting him in the upset category. Later, he encounters a succubus draining the
soul from one of his friends. Having beheld something extraordinary, he might lose more sanity but then take on the effects of
delusion. As the succubus assaults him and tries to seduce him, he might later suffer from hallucinations, but at the demented level of
sanity.

Depression
Depression usually happens after a traumatic event that involves personal tragedy. The event that these characters have been a
part of has been so emotionally jarring that they tend to shut down, become withdrawn, and grow increasingly negative.
Characters who suffer from depression
Events that might cause depression:
Witnessing a horrific crime
Losing ones job and live savings
Losing the use of ones legs
Having ones entire family wiped out
Finding out you are really a pawn for a dark force
Watching as a friend is eaten alive

The stages of depression are:

Upset: Im okay. No, really. Imgetting by. When a person first becomes depressed, they can perform all of the things they
did in normal life, but they lack enthusiasm. It is possible for someone who is depressed to disguise their feelings. An
unsettled depressed person receives no benefits from an exceptional success on any roll.
Unhinged: Just I need to be alone. People in this phase of depression will be prone to long fits of either crying, staring
off into space, or sleeping. It takes them a tremendous amount of energy to engage in everyday activities like going to
work or school. An unhinged depressed person receives no benefits from an exceptional success on any roll. They have a -
2 penalty to all skill checks. They gain a +2 bonus to any horror checks they might have to make, but if they fail a horror
check, they must immediately make a sanity check as well, to avoid becoming more depressed. The difficulty of the sanity
check is equal to that of the horror check.
Demented Im sorry. Im sorry about everything. These unfortunates have a hard time doing even the most basic things like
getting out of bed, taking a shower, or eating. They simply have given up. A demented depressed person receives no
benefits from an exceptional success on any roll and receives a -4 penalty to all skill checks. They gain a +4 bonus to any
horror checks they might have to make, but if they fail a horror check, they must immediately make a sanity check as
well, to avoid becoming more depressed. The difficulty of the sanity check is equal to that of the horror check.
Insane: ...everything just needs to go away... Individuals at this point have suicide seriously on their minds. This does not
mean that they are attempting it at every second, but it is foremost on their thoughts. Depressed individuals like this are
listless, numb, and generally unresponsive. They typically fail at any checks they need to make.

Delusion
Delusions occur usually after characters have witnessed something they cannot explain. Because what they have experienced
makes no sense, the minds of delusional characters will begin to take logical leaps about their universe. Reality is not longer
treated in the same way, because reality cannot be relied upon.

Events that might cause delusion:

Seeing strange beings whose flesh defy the laws of biology and physics
Seeing strange little people crawl into a hole in the wall of your house
Watching as a house folds in on itself and disappears
Watching a pair of eyes grow on the back on ones hands
Feeling strange, ethereal worms eat your brain from the inside out
Reading an arcane and twisted text that reveals a dark secret

The stages of delusion are:

Upset: Its alright. Its just a bit of a habit Ive picked up. Characters suffering from delusions have been shaken. To cope,
they adopt some kind of ritual or device in order for them to get by. For example, someone who saw something
extraordinary, might wipe their glasses repeatedly. A person who sees her dead son might keep his picture in her pocket.
If the unsettled person cannot perform their ritual or hold onto their crutch, they suffer a -1 penalty to all rolls.
Unhinged: Its not a crutch. Its just something I need to get by in everyday life. At this level of delusion, people cannot live
without their idiosyncrasies. A man might refuse to wear his glasses because they make him see things. A woman who
saw her dead son might constantly hold his photograph, even while asleep or eating. If something comes between the
unhinged person and their crutch, they will become very agitated. A character that is missing their metal crutch must
immediately make a horror check at the difficulty of their last sanity check.
Demented Crazy. Im not crazy. You are. Dont call me crazy! What was once mental crutch has become a complete detour
in rational thought. A man might not only refuse to wear is glasses, but now insist that everyone must do away with
theirs. A woman might turn her house into a shrine to her dead son and refuse to leave the premises, even if her home is
on fire. A character that is forced to see that their delusion is not real or do without their mental crutch must immediately
make a horror check at the difficulty of their last sanity check with a -4 penalty. Whatever the delusion, it should
completely transform daily life.
Insane The whole worlds gone mad! Cant you see? Tell me you can see it, too! Delusional characters who reach the bottom of
the insanity level have a break with reality. Their delusion has overtaken the rest of their psyche. A terrified man who saw
his entire family sprout tentacles and come after him might try to gouge out his own eyes. A mother whose dead son keeps
 appearing to her and calling to her might try to drown herself so that she can join him. Such characters are usually a
grave danger to themselves and others.

Paranoia
Characters who suffer from paranoia are those who have experienced hideous personal attacks, threats to their life, or dangers to
their loved ones. Because the threat they have experienced is so severe, everything has now been called into question. Danger
could lurk at every corner. Threats lie behind every smile.

Events that might cause paranoia:

Being attacked by creatures that tumble out of a rift in space
Finding out everyone you know was attacked in the same supernatural way
Having all three of your best friends kidnapped on three separate occasions
Getting constant messages that detail every single bit of your life
Constantly being attacked by creatures that defy reality
Earning the wrath of Countess Elizabeth Bathory

The stage of paranoia are:

Upset: Were you followed? A paranoid character first reaches a high level of alertness and anxiety. Unfortunately,
paranoid characters are far too alert, jumping at shadows and misinterpreting signs of danger. They suffer -1 penalty to
Wisdom and Charisma-based rolls.
Unhinged: Keep your voice down. They might be listening. Theyre always listening. When paranoid characters become
unhinged, they go beyond just misinterpreting signs of danger. Now, they invent incidents and enemies. These imaginary
threats are real and palpable for the victim. These poor souls receive a -2 penalty to Wisdom and Charisma-based rolls.
Demented: You...youre one of them, arent you? Characters who reach this depth of paranoia have major alterations in their
behavior and personality. These wretched souls will take drastic measures to protect themselves and their loved ones. A
demented, paranoid character might lock herself in her house, and refuse to allow herself or any of her family to leave.
Conversely, paranoid characters might become extremely violent, determined to destroy the perceived threat before it
gets them. Because of the level of suspicion and anxiety, demented, paranoid characters receive a -4 penalty to Wisdom
and Charisma-based rolls.
Insane: Aaaargh! At this point, most characters have degenerated into hysteria. Characters who delve this far into the
pit of paranoia are usually either raving, comatose, or wantonly violent. Raving characters will be being crying or
screaming uncontrollably. Comatose characters simply ball up into a fetal position. Violent characters go on a rampage.

hallucinations
Usually, mental hallucinations are a rare occurrence, caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, or a genetic disorder. On Gothic
Earth, this can be also caused by contact with the supernatural or otherworldly creatures. Unlike delusional characters,
hallucinatory characters are ones that have actually had direct interaction with the unearthly.

Events that might cause hallucinations:

Attempting to read an arcane and twisted text
Getting possessed by a powerful spirit or demon
Having sex with a vampire
Psychically contacting the mind of an insane killer
Dying and coming back to life
Catching a glimpse of an the Red Death or Jade Horror

The stages of hallucination are:

Upset: Did you just see? Nah. Must be my imagination. When characters first experience a direct brush with the
paranormal, their minds might become a bit askew. They first begin to see fleeting things out of the corners of their eyes.
Nothing in particular can be seen, just sudden movement. From time to time, they might hear distant voices murmuring.
These sensations are vague enough to be able to be dismissed as phenomena. However, they will be frequent enough for
most any person to become agitated and edgy. Characters suffering from this affliction face a -2 penalty to Perception
rolls.
Unhinged: Oh my god! Did you see that? Tell me you saw it! At the next stage of hallucination, characters start seeing brief
flashes of discernablethings. They might turn around to see a strange face pressed up against the window. They might
hear someone chuckle behind them when they make a mistake. The sensations look, feel, and sound real. They cannot be
ignored. Each time victims experience these hallucinations, they must make a horror check with a difficulty dependent
upon the vision. The penalty to Perception persists.
Demented: What are you talking about? Of course its real. I saw it, didnt I? The illusions conjured up at this level of insanity
are completely real for the afflicted. They see permanent objects and beings that arent there. Demons might crawl across
 the ceiling, or imaginary people might stop by to talk. The most insidious thing about this form of insanity is that those
affected are convinced that what they see is real, even if they should know better. For example, a person might fully
believe that his partner is alive and well, even though he went to his partners funeral. Afflicted characters may make a
Will save (DC 20) be able to tell that what they experience is not real. Failure means that they are convinced of its reality,
and cannot make another check until the scene is over. Hallucinations may require victims to make horror checks.
Insane: At this level of sanity, victims suffering from hallucinations experience complete and total withdrawal from
reality. They now live in a dream-state, experiencing an illusionary world that their mind can only see.

breakdown
Mania is typically brought on by incidents of severe, ongoing mental stress. The types of incidents that might cause breakdown
may overlap with some other causes for insanity. In cases where it is not clear, both player and game master must choose which
fits the character in question best. The biggest distinction between depression and breakdown is that depression is brought about
by some kind of terrible loss. Mania is brought about by persistent mental stress.

Events that might cause mania:

Being in front line combat
Being tortured
Being brainwashed
Being trapped in a house that is attacked by a horde of zombies
Forced to join a cult that believes in something opposite of what you hold true and dear
Constantly being possessed by demons

The stages of breakdown are:

Upset: N-nowI want everyone to, uh, fall back in squads of two. Um. Yeah. Th-thats right. At this level of breakdown, the
mental stress of the situation is chipping away the brain. Those affected by this either become snappy and irritable, or
nervous and unsure of themselves. Characters at this stage of breakdown suffer a -1 penalty to all skill checks, attack
rolls, Defense, and saves. Their anxiety makes everything they do less efficient.
Unhinged: I know what Im doing! Dont argue with me, bitch! This is your fault! At this point, the character in question is
beginning to becoming unraveled. The stress is finally getting under their skin. These poor souls are on the verge of a
mental breakdown. Their anxiety might make them dark with anger or depressed and withdrawn. Characters at this stage
of breakdown suffer a -2 penalty to all skill checks, attack rolls, Defense, and saves.
Demented: No! I dont! I dont know any more! I just Characters who have reached this level of breakdown begin to cry
uncontrollably or scream at everyone and everything around them. They have finally reached the point of mental
breakdown. These characters have just enough self control to be led around and perform actions if they are made to do
them. However, they will not initiate actions on their own. These characters suffer a -4 penalty to all skill checks, attack
rolls, Defense, and saves.
Insane: Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutup. Now at the end of mental breakdown, these poor characters minds go into
complete retreat. They cannot do much of anything but curl up into a ball and quiver.

Summary of Insanity Effects

Benchmark Depressed Delusion Paranoia Hallucinations Breakdown

Upset Receives no benefits -1 to all rolls if -1 to all Wisdom and -2 to Perception -1 penalty to all
from an exceptional character is without Charisma based rolls. checks skill checks,
success on any roll. crutch attack rolls,
Defense, and
saves

Unhinged -2 penalty to skill Make a horror check -2 to all Wisdom and Must make random -2 penalty to all
checks, +2 bonus to if your character loses Charisma based rolls. horror checks skill checks,
horror checks. If a their crutch. attack rolls,
horror check is failed, Defense, and
immediately make a saves
sanity check.

Demented -4 to all skill checks, Make a horror check -4 to all Wisdom and Must make Will saves -4 penalty to all
+4 to all horror at -4 if your character Charisma based rolls. (DC 20) to disbelieve skill checks,
checks. If a horror loses their crutch. hallucinations attack rolls,
check is failed, Defense, and
immediately make a saves
sanity check.
Insane Listless, numb, and This character is a Raving, comatose, or Acts in a random Cannot act
unresponsive threat to themselves wantonly violent. fashion
and others.